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chimpanzee

noun as in anthropoid

noun as in monkey

Strong matches

noun as in primate

noun as in simian

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Example Sentences

As a friend once told me, “A chimpanzee could have made money in L.A. real estate—and many did.”

The author of Guns, Germs, and Steel is out with an adaptation for young people of The Third Chimpanzee.

Tell me about your earliest personal interaction with a chimpanzee.

On Wednesday, the collection of pictures by Mikki (pictured above), a chimpanzee, reeled in roughly $75,000 at Sotheby's.

He clung to me like a chimpanzee baby with all four of his weakened limbs.

Again, we have the fact that man possesses normally only twelve ribs, one less than is found in the gorilla and the chimpanzee.

It is shortest in the chimpanzee, somewhat longer in the gorilla, still longer in the orang, and remarkably long in the gibbon.

The chief examples of anthropoid intelligence are told of the chimpanzee, which has been most frequently kept in captivity.

This species, apparently most nearly allied to the chimpanzee, was taller than any existing ape.

It would take an awful lot of explaining to make him understand the difference between, say, a chimpanzee and a man.

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On this page you'll find 37 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to chimpanzee, such as: gibbon, gorilla, humanoid, monkey, orang, and orangutan.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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