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My dear madame, the ape is a very ingenious animal, and his form much resembles the human.

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  1. noun Any of various large, tailless Old World primates of the family Pongidae, including the chimpanzee, gorilla, gibbon, and orangutan.
  2. noun A monkey.
  3. noun A mimic or imitator.

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  • As soon as the ruby was in her hand, the ape was an ape no more, but the corpse of an elderly woman with a spear in her breast. —  F ;SF - vol 096 issue 06 - June 1999
  • The Connecticut Department of Environmental Protection began investigating him at that time and learned that he never had a permit for the ape, as required by a 2004 state law, the affidavit stated. —  Stamford Advocate Most Viewed
  • The Connecticut Department of Environmental Protection began investigating and learned Onthank never had the required state and federal permits for the ape, the affidavit said. —  SanLuisObispo.com: 911
  • DEP began investigating and learned Onthank never had the required state and federal permits for the ape, the affidavit said.
  • When it comes to the issue of transitional fossils in the case of human evolution, creationists often claim that none of the hominid fossils discovered are transitional fossils at all, insisting that they are either all-ape or all-human (and thus can be easily classified into 'ape' and 'human' categories). —  Planet Atheism
 

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ape:   aping
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Etymologies (4)

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  1. Middle English, from Old English apa.

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  1. from Middle English ape, from Anglo-Saxon apa = Friesic apa = Dutch aap (plural apen) = Low German ape = Old High German affo, Middle High German affe, German affe = Icelandic api = Swedish apa = Danish abe, ape; not a native Teutonic word, but prob. (like Irish Gaelic ap, apa, Welsh ab, epa, OBohem. op, modern Bohemian opice, Sloven. opica, Upper Sorbian vopica, ORuss. opica, Russian obezĭyana) borrowed in very early times (apparently with loss of orig. initial k) from the East; cf. Greek κῆπος, also κῆβος, κεῖπος, (see Cebus), Sanskrit kapi, ape. The Sanskrit name is usually referred to Sanskrit ✓ *kap, kamp, tremble.
  2. from ape, n.
  3. Hawaiian.
 

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