Sapiens

name, noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A human being (Homo sapiens).

    "The earliest sapiens were gatherers, scavengers, and hunters of food."

Adjective
  1. 1
    of or relating to or characteristic of Homo sapiens wordnet
Proper Noun
  1. 1
    plural of Sapien form-of, plural

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human beingperson

Example

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"It's up to each one of us to understand that subspecies is a biological concept, lacking in the species Homo sapiens sapiens."

Etymology

From translingual Homo sapiens, from Latin sapiēns, present active participle of sapiō (“discern, be capable of discerning”).

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