great ape

English

Noun

great ape (plural great apes)

2. (archaic) A large non-human primate, such as a gorilla, an orangutan, or a chimpanzee. [to late 19C]

   Hypernyms: ape, primate

4. 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.

6. 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^[1]:

     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

See also

• See also Thesaurus:great ape

See also

• lesser ape
• monkey

Further reading

• “great ape”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

Anagrams

• gate rape