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单词 chimpanzee
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chimpanzeen.

Brit. /ˌtʃɪmpanˈziː/, /ˌtʃɪmp(ə)nˈziː/, U.S. /ˌtʃɪmˈpænzi/, /ˌtʃɪmpænˈzi/, /ˌtʃɪmpənˈzi/
Forms: Also 1700s chimpanze, 1800s shimpanse.
Etymology: < an African language of Angola, in West Africa. (Compare French chimpansé, -zé, -zée.)
A genus of African apes ( Anthropopithecus), bearing the closest resemblance to man of any of the anthropoids. The name originally belonged to A. Troglodytes (formerly T. niger), which was long the only species recognized; but at least one other species is now known. (See Nature 1889, 254.)
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the world > animals > mammals > order Primates > suborder Anthropoidea (higher primates) > [noun] > group Catarrhinae (Old World monkey) > member of superfamily Hominoidea (apes and humans) > family Pongidae (ape) > genus Pan or chimpanzee
pongo1625
mock-man1697
chimpanzee1738
mandrill1744
troglodyte1774
koolookamba1860
chimp1877
bonobo1955
1738 London Mag. Sept. 465 A most surprizing creature is brought over in the Speaker, just arrived from Carolina, that was taken in a wood at Guinea. She is the Female of the Creature which the Angolans call Chimpanze, or the Mockman.
1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. Chimpanzee, the name of an Angolan animal..In the year 1738, we had one of these creatures brought over into England.
1788 J. Matthews Voy. River Sierra Leone (1791) iv. 41 The Japanzees, or Chimpanzees, are also natives of this country.
1874 J. Lubbock Orig. & Metamorphoses Insects i. 6 The chimpanzee and the gorilla must certainly give place to the bee and the ant.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1889; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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