Meaning

3 senses
  1. Any member of the taxonomic family Hominidae, including gorilla, orangutan, chimpanzee, excluding Homo.

    Großaffe, Grossaffe, Großäffin

  2. Any member of the taxonomic family Hominidae, including Homo, and also many similar extinct species.

  3. (archaic)A large non-human primate, such as a gorilla, an orangutan, or a chimpanzee.

More definitions
  • any of the large anthropoid apes of the family Pongidae

Examples

1 sentences
  1. Tom is a bipedal great ape and he enjoys drinking various concoctions of fermented grains after his daily time-based enslavement.

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Translations

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By meaning 1
ape of the taxonomic family Hominidae:

Forms

plural: great apes
Singulargreat ape
Pluralgreat apes

regular

Synonyms

3 synonyms
Close in meaning
  • any of the large anthropoid apes of the family Pongidae:pongid

Word family

2 related words

See also

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