CHIMP

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does chimp mean? 

• CHIMP (noun)
  The noun CHIMP has 1 sense:

1. intelligent somewhat arboreal ape of equatorial African forests

  Familiarity information: CHIMP used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CHIMP (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Intelligent somewhat arboreal ape of equatorial African forests

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

chimp; chimpanzee; Pan troglodytes

Hypernyms ("chimp" is a kind of...):

great ape; pongid (any of the large anthropoid apes of the family Pongidae)

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

Pan troglodytes verus; western chimpanzee (masked or pale-faced chimpanzees of western Africa; distantly related to the eastern and central chimpanzees; possibly a distinct species)

eastern chimpanzee; Pan troglodytes schweinfurthii (long-haired chimpanzees of east-central Africa; closely related to the central chimpanzees)

central chimpanzee; Pan troglodytes troglodytes (black-faced chimpanzees of central Africa; closely related to eastern chimpanzees)

bonobo; Pan paniscus; pygmy chimpanzee (small chimpanzee of swamp forests in Zaire; a threatened species)

Holonyms ("chimp" is a member of...):

genus Pan; Pan (chimpanzees; more closely related to Australopithecus than to other pongids)

 Context examples 

The scientists say that the detection of both amyloid beta and tau in aged chimps suggests that Alzheimer's-like pathology is not limited to the human brain.

(New research detects Alzheimer's disease markers in nonhuman primates, National Science Foundation)

But the lineages that led to modern humans and to the chimp – the living species genetically closest to humans – branched apart around six to seven million years ago which means scientists currently have no genetic information for more than 90 per cent of the evolutionary path that led to modern humans.

(‘Game-changing’ research could solve evolution mysteries, University of Cambridge)