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chimpkind

chimpkind noun: the chimpanzee species in its entirety.

Noun

chimpkind (uncountable)

  1. The chimpanzee species in its entirety.
    • The one percent of difference between human and chimpkind, as it turns out, makes all the difference.2007, Max Oelschlaeger, “Boundaries and Darwin: Bridging the Great Divide”, in Charles S. Brown, Ted Toadvine, editors, Nature's Edge: Boundary Explorations in Ecological Theory and Practice, State...
    • He achieved great PR for chimpkind and even made the front cover of Life magazine.2008, BBC Wildlife, volume 26, numbers 1-7, page 83

Origin of chimpkind

From chimp + -kind.

Questions about chimpkind

What does chimpkind mean?
Chimpkind means the chimpanzee species in its entirety.
What part of speech is chimpkind?
Chimpkind is a noun.

Words near chimpkind in the dictionary

  1. chimphumans
  2. chimpiness
  3. chimping
  4. chimping out
  5. chimpish
  6. chimpkind
  7. chimplike
  8. chimpling
  9. chimplings
  10. chimponaut
  11. chimponauts

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