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LESSER APE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Gibbons and siamangs
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("lesser ape" is a kind of...):
anthropoid ape (any tailless ape of the families Pongidae and Hylobatidae)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "lesser ape"):
gibbon; Hylobates lar (smallest and most perfectly anthropoid arboreal ape having long arms and no tail; of southern Asia and East Indies)
Hylobates syndactylus; siamang; Symphalangus syndactylus (large black gibbon of Sumatra having the 2nd and 3rd toes partially united by a web)
Holonyms ("lesser ape" is a member of...):
family Hylobatidae; Hylobatidae (used in some classifications for the lesser apes (gibbons and siamangs); sometimes considered a subfamily of Pongidae)
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