habiline adjective 1noun 1forms 1 adjective1 •Of or pertaining to habilines. noun1 •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. — 2009 formshabilines
