Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A gregarious anthropoid ape (Pan troglodytes) of tropical Africa, having long dark hair and somewhat arboreal habits and exhibiting humanlike behavior and a high degree of intelligence. It is now considered vulnerable to extinction in the wild.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A large West African ape, Troglodytes (or Anthropopithecus or Mimetes) niger, belonging to the anthropoid or man-like monkeys, of the family Simiidæ and suborder Anthropoidea, with dark blackish-brown hair, flesh-colored hands and feet, arms reaching to the knee, and very large ears, and like the orang in having the hair on its forearm turned backward, but differing from it in having an additional dorsal vertebra and a thirteenth pair of ribs. In its organization and form it presents a close resemblance to man. The structure of its lower extremities enables it to walk erect better than most of the apes, although its habits are in reality arboreal, and when on the ground it usually goes on all-fours. It feeds on fruits and nuts, lives in small societies, and constructs a sort of nest among the branches of trees. The height of a full-grown male chimpanzee is about four feet. This animal is most nearly related to the gorilla.
Wiktionary
- n. A great ape of the genus Pan, native to Africa, and believed by biologists to be the closest extant relative to humans.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. (Zoöl.) An african ape (Pan troglodytes, formerly Anthropithecus troglodytes, or Troglodytes niger) which approaches more nearly to man, in most respects, than any other ape. It is the most intelligent of non-human animals, and when full grown, it is from three to four feet high. A variant called the pygmy chimpanzee, or bonobo, has been recently recognized as a separate species.
WordNet 3.0
- n. intelligent somewhat arboreal ape of equatorial African forests
Etymologies
- Portuguese, from Vili (Bantu language of Congo) ci-mpenzi. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
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Alas and alack for us, lawyers and pharisees, hypocrites that we are...
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“An Austrian provincial judge refused today to declare that Matthew Hiast Pan, a 26-year-old chimpanzee, is a person.”
“And this was fine, until researchers discovered that the perfect chimpanzee is not perfect.”
“The fetus of a chimpanzee is virtually indistinguishable from a human at that age.”
“Almost due south of the Ilha do Boi is the Zungá chyá Kampenzi, whence our word chimpanzee: in the hydrographic chart it is miswritten Zoonga Campendi, and in”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘chimpanzee’.
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primates
big ones,small ones,as many as
I can findangwantibo, babacoote, baboon, bandar, bandari, bobbejaan, bonobo, bushbaby, cebid, ceboid, chacma, chimp and 102 more...
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Schwa-Free
Words of more than one syllable that include no schwas in their pronunciation.
(Note for pedants: some of these words have more than one pronunciation. As long as just one of the possi...decoy, ballet, survey, sashay, argon, lilac, sumac, café, princess, dildo, wordy, flighty and 30 more...
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jagosaurus's favorites
Words I like mostly because of the way they sound and feel.
ticonderoga, petulance, snark, estimable, chickahominy, feline, gezellig, gneiss, shit, willy-nilly, shelter, coda and 366 more...
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colleen's words ii
sibilant, sundry, spindle, distaff, device, mortar, pestle, scythe, flail, thresh, frown, elementary and 495 more...
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Hedgepiglet
Words for things both tangible and nonanthropic
rorqual, vellus, wrasse, rainbow bee-eater, tinkershire, lemonquat, boomslang, tufted vetch, cubeb, nipplefruit, madapple, wad and 447 more...
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Fun Words
Words that have funny meanings or are just fun to say.
kumquat, chimichanga, sarsparilla, rutabaga, rumpus, flummox, encrusted, prestidigitation, pomegranate, preposterous, dentiloquist, sepulchre and 323 more...
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Flora and Fauna
poa annua, pooka, vole, bestiary, popple, turgor, starling, sharpy, copse, coreopsis, clove, corvid and 348 more...
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originally started as an attempt to collect words I found visually and auditorially beautiful, as well as psychically evocative, this has become nothing more than a grab bag of word curiosities, a ...
bergamot, jambalaya, bee's knees, heliotrope, hosanna, gamboge, aureole, filial, madrigal, multilingual, sacrosanct, sojourn and 1072 more...
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You Damned Dirty Ape!
Primates.
lemur, bush baby, galago, tarsier, potto, loris, marmoset, monkey, tamarin, capuchin, squirrel monkey, night monkey and 44 more...
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Things I Have Drawn on my Wall
All are life size!
words, names, scribble, lion, komodo dragon, tiger, elephant, polar bear, grizzly bear, smiley, sword, dagger and 47 more...
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A Day at the Zoo
Being animals, not necessarily limited to those commonly found in zoos.
chimpanzee, gorilla, elephant, giraffe, hippopotamus, rhinoceros, lion, tiger, bear, boa constrictor, cobra, monkey and 18 more...
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at the zoo
platypus, reindeer, ermine, penguin, grouse, vulture, boa, mouse, moose, snake, rattler, bat and 63 more...
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Animals that Have Baculums (Bacula? B...
It might be easier to list the animal classes that don't have these: humans, equids, marsupials, lagomorphs, and hyenas. Who knew? Besides skipvia, I mean?
This article states clearly ...walrus, otter, raccoon, mink, beaver, rat, gorilla, chimpanzee, canid, felid, bat, bushbaby and 5 more...
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Cruel Creatures
Animals whose behaviour reaches human in its nastiness.
queen bee, killer whale, elephant seal, chimpanzee, eurytoma wasp, meerkat, legionnaire ant, nazca booby
Tweets
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hernesheir The word chimpanzee contains the words impeach + zen. Just sayin'. Feb 17, 2011
mollusque Good one babycakes! Jul 3, 2009
pterodactyl Oooh! Has anyone else noticed that "chimpanzee" is a three-syllable schwa-free word?
*happy grin* Jul 3, 2009
madmouth spearin' bushbabies Jul 3, 2009
madmouth PR makes a tremendous amount of difference in both directions. them durn bonnet-wearing banana-chompers on TV inspired loads of loaded dimbulbs to get themselves a chimp, I bet, while leagues of parents would not under any circumstances allow for a pet rat in the house. Jul 3, 2009
arcadia I liked the commentary I heard form the head of the ASPCA following the defacing and ripping off of the hands of the friend of the owner of the chimp from the Old Navy commercials. He said that "The owning of chimpanzees as pets is an example of colossal human stupidity". Jul 3, 2009
madmouth an interesting post-battle ritual for the victors: tearing apart an enemy baby and passing delicious chunks around. Jul 3, 2009