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chim•pan•zee



Pronunciation: (chim"pan-zē', chim-pan'zē), [key]
—n.
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. Cf. pygmy chimpanzee.

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