gorilla
Other forms: gorillas
A gorilla is the world's largest primate — the kind of great, powerful ape you might see on an African safari.
The stocky, large-headed gorilla is one of the most impressive animals you'll come across in the primate area of a zoo. Gorillas are vegetarians whose native habitat is the forest of central west Africa. The word gorilla is sometimes also used to refer to a big, aggressive man. It was first coined in the 19th century by a United States missionary to Africa, from the Greek word gorillai — the word Carthaginian explorer Hanno used to mean "wild, hairy people" in 500 B.C.E.
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largest anthropoid ape; terrestrial and vegetarian; of forests of central west Africasynonyms: Gorilla gorillatypes:silverbackan adult male gorilla with grey hairs across the back
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Learn the correct meanings and usages of these commonly confused words for ninth- and tenth-grade students.
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