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gorillæ

gorillæ is the obsolete form of Gorillai.

Meaning of Gorillai

Proper noun

Gorillai

  1. (historical) A tribe of hairy women described by Hanno the Navigator.
    • Mr D. cenſures Voſſius for imagining that the Gorgons and Gorillæ had any reference to each other; and obſerves, that it was not the Greeks, nor even the Carthaginian Hanno himſelf, who gave them this appellation, but the interpreters, whom they had procured from the Lixitæ; and that it is...1797, Thomas Falconer, “Dissertation II.”, in The Voyage of Hanno: […], London, page 41

Proper noun capitalized: Gorillæ

Gorillæ

  1. (obsolete) Obsolete form of Gorillai.

Questions about gorillæ

What is gorillæ the obsolete form of?
Gorillæ is the obsolete form of Gorillai.
What part of speech is gorillæ?
Gorillæ is a proper noun.

Words near gorillæ in the dictionary

  1. gorilline
  2. gorillines
  3. gorillion
  4. gorillions
  5. gorilloid
  6. gorillæ
  7. gorily
  8. gorimapa
  9. Gorin
  10. Gorinchem
  11. goriness

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Adapted from Wiktionary: gorillæ (page history and authors); Gorillæ (page history and authors); Gorillai (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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