Hominoidea

noun plural

Hom·​i·​noi·​dea ˌhäm-ə-ˈnȯid-ē-ə 

1

in former classifications : a major division of the order Primates segregating Homo and related fossil forms from the great apes

2

: a superfamily of the primate suborder Haplorhini including recent hominids and gibbons together with extinct ancestral and related forms (as of the genera Proconsul and Dryopithecus) as distinguished from other primates (such as lemurs and lorises) compare cercopithecidae