Word.ws English Dictionary

gorillesses

gorillesses is the plural of gorilless.

Meaning of gorilless

Noun

gorilless (plural gorillesses)

  1. (rare) A female gorilla.
    • The last statement suggests to me the question, did she walk upon her hind legs only, or upon all four? That is, did she walk erect like a man and a brother,—I should say a gorilless and a sister,—or like an attached and humble individual of the canine or feline quadruped species?[…]Was not...1861 September 30, “Paterfamilias”, “Gentle Gorilla–Wither Away. To the Editor of Fun.”, in Fun, published 12 October 1861, page 39, columns 1–2

Questions about gorillesses

What is gorillesses the plural of?
Gorillesses is the plural of gorilless.

Words near gorillesses in the dictionary

  1. gorillalike
  2. gorillas
  3. gorillas in the room
  4. gorillaship
  5. gorilless
  6. gorillesses
  7. gorillian
  8. gorilline
  9. gorillines
  10. gorillion
  11. gorillions

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: gorillesses (page history and authors); gorilless (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.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “gorillesses.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/gorillesses. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.