gibbon
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- 11
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- 15
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Definition of gibbon
2 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included
noun
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A small ape of the family Hylobatidae with long limbs, which they use to travel through rainforests by swinging from branch to branch.
“'[…] Suppose that in years to come, when the Church's troubles seem to be over, there should come an apostate of my own trade, a false historian, with the mind of Cicero or Tacitus and the soul of an animal,' and he nodded towards the gibbon who fretted his golden chain and chattered for fruit.”
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noun
-
A small ape of the family Hylobatidae with long limbs, which they use to travel through rainforests by swinging from branch to branch.
“'[…] Suppose that in years to come, when the Church's troubles seem to be over, there should come an apostate of my own trade, a false historian, with the mind of Cicero or Tacitus and the soul of an animal,' and he nodded towards the gibbon who fretted his golden chain and chattered for fruit.”
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Etymology
Reborrowing from French gibbon, folk etymology (compare English Gibbon) ultimately from a Northern Aslian language (compare Batek kəboɲ).
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