Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Any of various apes of the subfamily Ponginae, which includes only the orangutans and their extinct relatives.
- noun Any of various apes of the formerly recognized family Pongidae, which included the chimpanzees, gorillas, and orangutans. No longer in scientific use.
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- noun Any
primate in the family Pongidae, including thegreat apes .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun any of the large anthropoid apes of the family Pongidae
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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(formerly would have been called a pongid/ape) fossil, not a human per se.
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I like Gigantopithecus but "he" seems more pongid --??
Frame 352, and all that Darren Naish 2006
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Yet he graciously forgave Le Gros and thanked him for his apology—though he also added somewhat testily, “I think both Mary and I do know a genuine fossil when we see one and can distinguish a pongid ape from a hominid without any difficulty.”
Ancestral Passions Virginia Morell 1995
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Yet he graciously forgave Le Gros and thanked him for his apology—though he also added somewhat testily, “I think both Mary and I do know a genuine fossil when we see one and can distinguish a pongid ape from a hominid without any difficulty.”
Ancestral Passions Virginia Morell 1995
lozzak commented on the word pongid
(adj) in a more abstract way, used to describe something gorrilla-like :)
January 31, 2008