habiline means of or pertaining to habilines. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 87 out of 100.
Etymology
From Homo habilis + -ine.
adj
- Of or pertaining to habilines.“Finally, new finds from Olduvai prompted Leakey, Tobias and Napier (1964) to recognize a new form, Homo habilis. Although the post-cranial elements of this find are no longer believed to be habiline, further finds[…]suggest that there is indeed a reality to this species.”
noun
- A specimen of the now extinct species Homo habilis.“By around 2.3 million years ago, the first tentative record emerges of a new species, a habiline. Habilines, still poorly understood, are the “missing link” between apes and humans.”