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- Dictionarygo·ril·la/ɡəˈrilə/
noun
- 1. a powerfully built great ape with a large head and short neck, found in the forests of central Africa. It is the largest living primate.
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The meaning of GORILLA is 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. How to use gorilla in a sentence.
Gorillas are herbivorous, predominantly ground-dwelling great apes that inhabit the tropical forests of equatorial Africa. The genus Gorilla is divided into two species: the eastern gorilla and the western gorilla, and either four or five subspecies.
a large ape (= animal like a monkey) that comes from western and central Africa. (Definition of gorilla from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press) Examples of gorilla.
Gorilla definition: a terrestrial, largely vegetarian great ape of the genus Gorilla, inhabiting central African forests. See examples of GORILLA used in a sentence.
The largest of the great apes, gorillas are stocky animals with broad chests and shoulders, large, human-like hands, and small eyes set into hairless faces. The two gorilla species live in equatorial Africa, separated by about 560 miles of Congo Basin forest. Each has a lowland and upland subspecies.
Jun 25, 2024 · Gorilla, genus of primates containing the largest of the apes. The gorilla is one of the closest living relatives to humans. Only the chimpanzee and the bonobo are closer. Gorillas live only in tropical forests of equatorial Africa. Most authorities recognize two species and four subspecies.
Gorillas are large apes that live in the jungles of Africa. There are two species of gorillas, western gorillas and eastern gorillas. They are the largest of the great apes, and they are largest primates alive today. The IUCN lists both the Western Gorilla and the Eastern Gorilla species as Critically Endangered.
a large ape (= animal like a monkey) that comes from western and central Africa. (Definition of gorilla from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press) Examples of gorilla.
Dec 6, 2016 · Physical description. The largest living primates, gorillas are stocky animals with broad chests and shoulders, large hands, and forearms that are much shorter than the upper arm. The face is black and hairless, with small eyes that are close together and large, prominent nostrils.
Stocky, powerful forest dwellers native to equatorial Africa, both species of gorillas—the western gorilla (Gorilla gorilla) and the eastern gorilla (G. beringei)—have black skin and hair, large nostrils, and a prominent browridge.
