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GIBBON

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Smallest and most perfectly anthropoid arboreal ape having long arms and no tail; of southern Asia and East Indies

Synonyms:

gibbon; Hylobates lar

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("gibbon" is a kind of...):

lesser ape (gibbons and siamangs)

Holonyms ("gibbon" is a member of...):

genus Hylobates; Hylobates (gibbons)

Sense 2

Meaning:

English historian best known for his history of the Roman Empire (1737-1794)

Synonyms:

Edward Gibbon; Gibbon

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Instance hypernyms:

historian; historiographer (a person who is an authority on history and who studies it and writes about it)

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