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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun An artificial language using symbols to represent words, created for experimental communication between humans and nonhuman primates.
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- proper noun An
artificial language oflexigrams developed for use by non-humanprimates .
Etymologies
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[After Robert Mearns Yerkes.]
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Yerkes + -ish, after Robert M. Yerkes, the founder of the laboratory within which the lexigrams were first used.
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