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All chimpanzee synonyms

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noun chimpanzee

  • baboon — A baboon is a large monkey that lives in Africa.
  • ape — Apes are chimpanzees, gorillas, and other animals in the same family.
  • lemur — any of various small, arboreal, chiefly nocturnal mammals of the family Lemuridae, of Madagascar and the Comoro Islands, especially of the genus Lemur, usually having large eyes, a foxlike face, and woolly fur: most lemurs are endangered.
  • gorilla — the largest of the anthropoid apes, Gorilla gorilla, terrestrial and vegetarian, of western equatorial Africa and the Kivu highlands, comprising the subspecies G. g. gorilla (western lowland gorilla) G. g. graueri (eastern lowland gorilla) and G. g. beringei (mountain gorilla) now rare.
  • orangutan — a large, long-armed anthropoid ape, Pongo pygmaeus, of arboreal habits, inhabiting Borneo and Sumatra: an endangered species.
  • midget — (not in technical use) an extremely small person having normal physical proportions.
  • rascal — a base, dishonest, or unscrupulous person.
  • monk — (James) Arthur ("Art") born 1957, U.S. football player.
  • imp — a little devil or demon; an evil spirit.
  • scamp — an unscrupulous and often mischievous person; rascal; rogue; scalawag.
  • simian — of or relating to an ape or monkey.
  • anthropoid — resembling man
  • monkey — any mammal of the order Primates, including the guenons, macaques, langurs, and capuchins, but excluding humans, the anthropoid apes, and, usually, the tarsier and prosimians. Compare New World monkey, Old World monkey.
  • primate — Ecclesiastical. an archbishop or bishop ranking first among the bishops of a province or country.
  • man — Unix manual page
  • human — of, pertaining to, characteristic of, or having the nature of people: human frailty.
  • mammal — any vertebrate of the class Mammalia, having the body more or less covered with hair, nourishing the young with milk from the mammary glands, and, with the exception of the egg-laying monotremes, giving birth to live young.
  • hominoid — Anthropology. a member of the biological superfamily Hominoidea, including all modern great apes and humans and a number of their extinct ancestors and relatives.
  • gibbonEdward, 1737–94, English historian.
  • dwarf — a person of abnormally small stature owing to a pathological condition, especially one suffering from cretinism or some other disease that produces disproportion or deformation of features and limbs.
  • runt — an animal that is small or stunted as compared with others of its kind.
  • lilliputian — extremely small; tiny; diminutive.
  • gnome — GNU Network Object Model Environment
  • pigmy — Anthropology. a member of a small-statured people native to equatorial Africa. a Negrito of southeastern Asia, or of the Andaman or Philippine islands.
  • shrimp — any of several small, long-tailed, chiefly marine crustaceans of the decapod suborder Natania, certain species of which are used as food.
  • humanoid — having human characteristics or form; resembling human beings.
  • orang — orangutan.
  • brachiator — any primate which swings by its arms from one hold to the next
  • cercopithecoid — of, relating to, or belonging to the primate superfamily Cercopithecoidea (Old World monkeys)
  • great ape — any of a group of anthropoid primates characterized by long arms, a broad chest, and the absence of a tail, comprising the family Pongidae (great ape) which includes the chimpanzee, gorilla, and orangutan, and the family Hylobatidae (lesser ape) which includes the gibbon and siamang.
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