1) Man, the two-handed 
• (n. pl.) Animals having two hands; -- a term applied by Cuvier to man as a special order of Mammalia.
Bim'a·na noun plural [ New Latin See Bimanous .] (Zoology) Animals having two hands; -- a term applied by Cuvier to man as a special order of Mammalia . 
Bimana was a term for animals having two hands. The term was applied by Cuvier to the highest order of Mammalia, which in the late 19th and earliest 20th centuries man was considered the type and sole genus. By 1906 some naturalists had started to classify man as a sub-division of the order Primates, which includes also the apes, monkeys, and lemur...