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chimpanzees

chimpanzees is the plural of chimpanzee.

Meaning of chimpanzee

Noun

chimpanzee (plural chimpanzees)

  1. Pan troglodytes, a species of great ape native to the savannas and forests of Africa, and believed by biologists to be the closest extant relative to humans along with the bonobo.
    Synonyms:
    chimp
  2. (dated) A great ape of the genus Pan, including the bonobo which was formerly known as the pygmy chimpanzee.

Phrases with chimpanzees

Questions about chimpanzees

What is chimpanzees the plural of?
Chimpanzees is the plural of chimpanzee.

Words near chimpanzees in the dictionary

  1. chimp outs
  2. Chimpanese
  3. chimpanzee
  4. chimpanzee fire
  5. chimpanzeelike
  6. chimpanzees
  7. chimpanzoid
  8. Chimpcago
  9. Chimpcongo
  10. chimped
  11. chimped out

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Adapted from Wiktionary: chimpanzees (page history and authors); chimpanzee (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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