Gorilla



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GRE 红宝书

• n. 大猩猩
• ［英］ n. 大猩猩 ( very large powerful African ape)

Webster Collegiate

noun

• Etymology: New Latin, from Greek Gorillai, plural, a tribe of hairy women mentioned in an account of a voyage around Africa
• Date: 1847
• 1. a very large typically black-colored anthropoid ape (Gorilla gorilla) of equatorial Africa that has a stocky body with broad shoulders and long arms and is less erect and has smaller ears than the chimpanzee
• 2.
  • a. an ugly or brutal man
  • b. thug, goon

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