| 单词 | great ape |
| 释义 | > as lemmasgreat ape great ape n. any of the large apes of the group comprising gorillas, orangutans, and chimpanzees (often classified as the family Pongidae, but in some current schemes included with humans in the family Hominidae); an anthropoid ape; contrasted with lesser ape.Pennant (quot. 1771) uses the term for a ‘species’ that appears to be a conflation of the orangutan and the chimpanzee. ΘΚΠ 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) babiona1529 jackanapes1528 Johnanapes1633 man-monkey1651 ape1699 pygmy1699 Simia1719 great ape1771 anthropoid1861 pithecoid1874 man-ape1878 pongid1949 pithecine1962 1771 T. Pennant Synopsis Quadrupeds 96 Great [Ape]... A[pe] with a flat face, and a deformed resemblance of the human: ears exactly like those of a man. 1842 C. H. Smith Introd. Mammalia (Naturalist's Libr.: Mammalia XIII) 101 We place at their head the great apes, or men of the woods, now divided into two genera. 1861 Proc. Royal Geogr. Soc. 5 111 A missionary at the Gaboon..sent him [sc. Prof. Owen] a pen-and-ink sketch of the skull of one of these great apes. 1913 D. G. Elliott Rev. Primates I. Errata The premier genus of the Great Apes is Pongo. 1949 Q. Rev. Biol. 24 207/1 The orthodox, anthropoid-ape theory..concentrates almost exclusively upon the resemblances between man and the anthropoids, the pongids or great apes in particular. 2009 J. A. Coyne Why Evol. is True Notes 264 This group used to be called hominids, but that term is now reserved for all modern and extinct great apes, including humans, chimpanzees, gorillas, orangutans, and all of their ancestors. < as lemmas |
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