Gorilla Definition

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gorillas
noun
gorillas
The largest and most powerful of the great apes (Gorilla gorilla), native to the jungles of equatorial Africa: the adult male weighs up to 225 kg (c. 500 lb): it is generally shy, intelligent, and herbivorous.
Webster's New World
A person regarded as like a gorilla in appearance, strength, etc.
Webster's New World
A powerfully built, aggressive, and often crude man.
American Heritage
A gangster; thug.
Webster's New World
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A taxonomic genus within the subfamily Homininae — the gorillas, the largest of the great apes.

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Other Word Forms of Gorilla

Noun

Singular:
gorilla
Plural:
gorillas

Origin of Gorilla

  • Ancient Greek Γόριλλαι (Gorillai, “a tribe of hairy women”), described by Hanno the Navigator, a Carthaginian navigator and possible visitor to the area that later became Sierra Leone.

    From Wiktionary

  • New Latin (Trōglodytēs) gorilla former species name from Greek Gorillai a tribe of hairy women perhaps of African origin

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Gorilla Sentence Examples

  • The gorilla in the room was finally introduced by Molly.

  • The differences between a gorilla's skull and a man's are truly immense.

  • The other four trunks displayed like goods—a moth-eaten gorilla suit, two bloody collections of dresses, and an outfit Dean supposed Frankenstein wore when he went out for a little nightlife.

  • The largest proportional size of the facial bones, and the great projection of the jaws, confer on the gorilla's skull its small facial angle and brutal character,while its teeth differ from man's in relative size and number of fangs.

  • The older method was to attempt the comparison between the highest member of a lower group and the lowest member of a higher group - to suppose, for example, that the gorilla and the chimpanzee, the highest members of the apes, were the existing representatives of the ancestors of man and to compare these forms with the lowest members of the human race.

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