chuman
English edit
Etymology edit
Blend of chimpanzee + human.
Noun edit
chuman (plural chumans)
- A hypothetical hybrid of a male chimpanzee and a female human.
- Synonym: chimphuman
- Coordinate terms: humanzee, manpanzee
- 2016, Itai Yanai, Lercher Martin, The Society of Genes, Harvard University Press, →ISBN, page 151:
- The chuman had been sheer fantasy. Oliver was an unusual chimp, yet a chimp just the same. But what really stands in the way of a chuman? Did chumans ever exist?