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Chimpanzee

CHIMPANZEE

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Noun.
An animal of the ape kind, a variety of the ourang-outang.
It is now considered a distinct species.

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chimpanzee

chimpanzee

English

Chimpanzee

Noun

chimpanzee (plural chimpanzees)

  1. A great ape of the genus Pan, native to Africa, and believed by biologists to be the closest extant relative to humans.

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  1. chimpanzee” in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company, 2015.