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Gorillae

Gorillae is the alternative 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

Questions about Gorillae

What is Gorillae the alternative form of?
Gorillae is the alternative form of Gorillai.

Words near Gorillae in the dictionary

  1. gorilla salad
  2. Gorilla Sign Language
  3. gorilla suit
  4. gorilla suits
  5. gorilla-like
  6. Gorillae
  7. gorillaesque
  8. gorillagram
  9. gorillagrams
  10. gorillahon
  11. Gorillai

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