Definitions for chimpanzees

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chimpanzees chim·pan·zee

Spelling: [chim-pan-zee, chim-pan-zee]

IPA: /ˌtʃɪm pænˈzi, tʃɪmˈpæn zi/

Chimpanzees is a 11 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 28 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 31 points.

You can make 842 anagrams from letters in chimpanzees (aceehimnpsz).

Definitions for chimpanzees

noun

1. a large, somewhat arboreal anthropoid ape, Pan troglodytes, of equatorial Africa, having a brown-to-black coat, a relatively hairless face with a rounded muzzle, prominent ears, and hands adapted for knuckle-walking, noted for its intelligence and humanlike behavior: now greatly reduced in number and threatened with extinction in the wild.

Origin of chimpanzees

First recorded in 1730-40; presumably

Examples for chimpanzees

Tell me about your earliest personal interaction with a chimpanzee.

As a friend once told me, “A chimpanzee could have made money in L.A. real estate—and many did.”

She never favours me with her views,' said Fox-Moore, with his chimpanzee smile.

The subject is closed by a quotation from Grandpré on the habits of the chimpanzee.

But when it is transfused into a chimpanzee there is an harmonious mingling of the two.

On Wednesday, the collection of pictures by Mikki (pictured above), a chimpanzee, reeled in roughly $75,000 at Sotheby's.

The author of Guns, Germs, and Steel is out with an adaptation for young people of The Third chimpanzee.

Kate was very glad to hear that we had let the chimpanzee go.

He clung to me like a chimpanzee baby with all four of his weakened limbs.

I ask because the chimpanzee does not open its mouth when astonished, or when listening.