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LESSER APE

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Gibbons and siamangs

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("lesser ape" is a kind of...):

anthropoid ape (any tailless ape of the families Pongidae and Hylobatidae)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "lesser ape"):

gibbon; Hylobates lar (smallest and most perfectly anthropoid arboreal ape having long arms and no tail; of southern Asia and East Indies)

Hylobates syndactylus; siamang; Symphalangus syndactylus (large black gibbon of Sumatra having the 2nd and 3rd toes partially united by a web)

Holonyms ("lesser ape" is a member of...):

family Hylobatidae; Hylobatidae (used in some classifications for the lesser apes (gibbons and siamangs); sometimes considered a subfamily of Pongidae)

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