gorilla

From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary EnglishRelated topics: Animalsgorillago‧ril‧la /ɡəˈrɪlə/ noun [countable] 1 HBAa very large African monkey that is the largest of the apes2 a man who is very large and who looks as if he might become violentExamples from the Corpusgorilla• Like ya bin dressed by a gorilla inna dark.• In chimpanzees and gorillas, the total is less than a standard sheet of typing paper.• Pause here for gorilla joke: A man is walking down Oxford Street with a gorilla on each arm.• Starkly primeval, it resembles the head of a giant gorilla!• One of Jewontin's examples concerns the brain-size of gorillas and chimpanzees.• The first motion picture from Jim Henson Pictures centers on a cute little simian child who becomes an 800-pound gorilla.• As semi-podunk semi-newspapers go, Wick Communications is something of a 900-pound gorilla.Origin gorilla (1800-1900) Greek Gorillai, name of an African tribe of hairy women in old stories

单词	gorilla
释义	gorilla From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary EnglishRelated topics: Animalsgorillago‧ril‧la /ɡəˈrɪlə/ noun [countable] 1 HBAa very large African monkey that is the largest of the apes2 a man who is very large and who looks as if he might become violentExamples from the Corpusgorilla• Like ya bin dressed by a gorilla inna dark.• In chimpanzees and gorillas, the total is less than a standard sheet of typing paper.• Pause here for gorilla joke: A man is walking down Oxford Street with a gorilla on each arm.• Starkly primeval, it resembles the head of a giant gorilla!• One of Jewontin's examples concerns the brain-size of gorillas and chimpanzees.• The first motion picture from Jim Henson Pictures centers on a cute little simian child who becomes an 800-pound gorilla.• As semi-podunk semi-newspapers go, Wick Communications is something of a 900-pound gorilla.Origin gorilla (1800-1900) Greek Gorillai, name of an African tribe of hairy women in old stories
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