chimpanzee

English
A chimpanzee

Etymology

The first recorded use of the name chimpanzee dates to 1738. The name is derived from an unspecified Bantu language of Angola, comparable to Vili ci-mpenzi.[1]

Pronunciation
  • (UK, US) IPA(key): /tʃɪmˈpæn.zi/, /ˌtʃɪm.pənˈziː/, /ˌtʃɪm.pænˈziː/
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Noun

chimpanzee (plural chimpanzees)

  1. A species of great ape in the genus Pan, native to Africa, and believed by biologists to be the closest extant relative to humans.

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References
  1. “chimpanzee” in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016, →ISBN.
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