Chimpanzee
[tʃɪmpæn'ziː] or [,tʃɪmpæn'zi]
Definition
(noun.) intelligent somewhat arboreal ape of equatorial African forests.
Edited by Adela--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) An african ape (Anthropithecus troglodytes or Troglodytes niger) which approaches more nearly to man, in most respects, than any other ape. When full grown, it is from three to four feet high.
Editor: Nell
Definition
n. an African ape the highest of the anthropoid or more man-like apes belonging to the same genus as the gorilla.
Typist: Loretta
Examples
- If so, it is certainly not chimpanzee nor close to the Apes, but decidedly hominid. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The creature was not a man, nor was it an arboreal ape like the chimpanzee. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Others, alive to this objection, say that man is descended from the common ancestor of the chimpanzee, the orang-utang, and the gorilla. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Miller, an American anthropologist, has made a very good comparison of it with a chimpanzee's jaw, and concludes that it is a chimpanzee's. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- It was only related to the true ancestor of man as the orang is related to the chimpanzee. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The one point in the Piltdown jaw itself against chimpanzee identification is the smooth, flat, worn surface of the molars. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
Typist: Terrence