great ape

English

Noun

great ape (plural great apes)

(archaic) A large non-human primate, such as a gorilla, an orangutan, or a chimpanzee. [to late 19C]
Hypernyms: ape, primate
Any member of the taxonomic family Hominidae, including gorilla, orangutan, chimpanzee, excluding Homo.
Coordinate term: hominin
- 2005, Richard Dawkins, The Ancestor's Tale, page 114:
  Long before people thought in terms of evolution […] great apes were often confused with humans.
Any member of the taxonomic family Hominidae, including Homo, and also many similar extinct species.
Synonym: hominid

Hyponym: hominin
- 2014, Laurel Braitman, Animal Madness: How Anxious Dogs, Compulsive Parrots, and Elephants in Recovery Help Us Understand Ourselves‎:
  This wrinkled layer of gray matter that's highly developed in humans and other great apes, as well as whales, dolphins, and elephants, helps coordinate complex cognitive processes.

Hypernyms

primate

Translations

ape of the taxonomic family Hominidae

Chinese:
Mandarin: 類人猿／类人猿 (zh) (lèirényuán)
Dutch: mensaap (nl) m
Finnish: iso ihmisapina
French: hominidé (fr) m, grand singe (fr) m
Galician: gran simio m
German: Großaffe m, Grossaffe m (Switzerland, Liechtenstein), Großäffin f, Grossäffin f (Switzerland, Liechtenstein), Menschenaffe (de) m, Menschenäffin f, Hominide (de) m, Hominid m (less common), Hominidin f
Spanish: gran simio m

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