Gibbon

  • 21gibbon — [gib′ən] n. [Fr < native name] any of a family (Hylobatidae) of small, slender, long armed, tree dwelling, anthropoid apes of India, S China, and the East Indies …

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  • 22Gibbon — Taxobox name = GibbonsMSW3 Groves|pages=178 181] cite journal | last = Mootnick | first = A. | coauthors = Groves, C. P. | year = 2005 | title = A new generic name for the hoolock gibbon (Hylobatidae) | journal = International Journal of… …

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  • 23Gibbon — Pour les autres significations, voir Gibbon (homonymie). Nom vernaculaire ou nom normalisé ambigu : Le terme « Gibbon  » s applique en français à plusieurs taxons distincts …

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  • 24gibbon — /gib euhn/, n. any small, slender, long armed arboreal anthropoid ape of the genus Hylobates, of the East Indies and southern Asia: all gibbon species are reduced in number and some are very rare. [1760 70; < F, name of uncert. orig. used by&#8230; …

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  • 25Gibbon — /gib euhn/, n. Edward, 1737 94, English historian. * * * I Any of about six species (genus Hylobates) of lesser apes (family Hylobatidae), found in Indo Malayan forests. Gibbons use their long arms to swing from branch to branch. They walk erect&#8230; …

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  • 26Gibbon — Gịb|bon 〈m. 6; Zool.〉 Angehöriger einer Familie der schmalnasigen, schwanzlosen Affen, die Arme berühren bei aufrechtem Gang den Boden: Hylobatidae [&LT;Eingeborenenmundart Indiens] * * * Gịb|bon, der; s, s [frz. gibbon, H. u.]: (in den&#8230; …

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  • 27Gibbon — Recorded in many forms including Gibben, Gibbin, Giblin, Gibling, Gibbon, and Gubbin, this English surname has two possible origins. Firstly, it may have originated from the Germanic personal name Gebwine , composed of the elements, geba a gift&#8230; …

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  • 28gibbon — UK [ˈɡɪbən] / US noun [countable] Word forms gibbon : singular gibbon plural gibbons an animal that looks like a monkey with long arms and no tail that lives in the forests of India and Indonesia …

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  • 29gibbon — (ji bbon) s. m. Grand singe des Indes. •   Le gibbon, dont les jambes de devant ou les bras sont aussi longs que tout le corps, y compris même les jambes de derrière, se trouve aux grandes Indes et point en Amérique, BUFF. Quadrup. t. III, p. 187 …

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  • 30Gibbon — Original name in latin Gibbon Name in other language State code US Continent/City America/Chicago longitude 40.74835 latitude 98.8448 altitude 631 Population 1833 Date 2011 05 14 …

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