CHIMPANZEE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does chimpanzee mean? 

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

1. intelligent somewhat arboreal ape of equatorial African forests

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• CHIMPANZEE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Intelligent somewhat arboreal ape of equatorial African forests

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

chimp; chimpanzee; Pan troglodytes

Hypernyms ("chimpanzee" 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 "chimpanzee"):

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 ("chimpanzee" is a member of...):

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

 Context examples 

I had rather that Nancy and my old pals should think of Harry Wood as having died with a straight back, than see him living and crawling with a stick like a chimpanzee.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The research team examined brain specimens from a group of 20 aged chimpanzees.

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

And it's not just humans who have a propensity for contagious yawning -chimpanzees and dogs do it too.

(Why Is Yawning so Contagious?, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

A taxonomic family that was originally restricted to humans and their extinct relatives, but now also includes the gorilla, orangutan, chimpanzee and bonobo.

(Hominidae, NCI Thesaurus)

But the identification in the aged chimpanzees of amyloid beta and tau lesions, hallmarks of Alzheimer's diagnosis, is a significant advance in understanding the brain and Alzheimer's.

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

Age-related comparisons of the brains of humans and chimpanzees, the closest living relatives to humans, are challenging because of the scarcity of samples from older chimpanzees.

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

In captivity, only 10 percent of male chimpanzees live to age 45 and only 10 percent of females to 55.

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

As a part of their research to understand the evolution of the human brain and how it differs from those of other primates, scientists from Kent State University discovered proteins associated with Alzheimer's disease — believed to be unique to humans — in a sample of brains of aged chimpanzees.

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