chimp

Examples

• All

• Jane Goodall dropped out at the last minute because she's nursing a sick chimp and they asked me.

  Garfield: A Tail of Two Kitties (2006)

• The chimps are capable of many of the same tasks as men.

  The Right Stuff (1983)

• This is Sarah the chimp, and this is where she lives.

• But they actually think that the chimp is so strong that they're beyond help.

• There are fewer chimps in the world than there used to be.

  Mrs. Doubtfire (1993)

• My ninth-grade science teacher was so bad that I figured even a chimp could do better.

  Academic text (2002)

• We are tribal chimps that evolved to do what we do.

• Thanks to the mini-cams, he could see the chimps without them seeing him.

  Fiction book (2000)

• And what you do is you record the sounds of big male chimps giving threatening bellows.

• The chimp sat quietly in the trees, observing the other animals in the forest.

Synonyms

A

ape

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118 1.0

A primate without a tail, like a chimpanzee or gorilla

is the specific name for one species rather than the wider primate group

C

chimpanzee

vschimp

77 2.6

A large smart ape from African forests that is closely related to humans

is the shorter informal everyday name used in speech

G

great ape

vschimp

5 3.4

A large animal like a gorilla or orangutan with no tail and closely related to humans

is the narrower species-level term for one specific member of that family

P

Pan troglodytes

vschimp

• Specialized

7.1

A large wild ape that lives in African forests and uses simple tools

is the casual common name rather than the scientific label

C

central chimpanzee

vschimp

• Specialized

7.6

A type of chimpanzee with a black face that lives in the forests of central Africa

is the broader term covering similar apes across central and western Africa

Surface Forms

Etymology