gorilline

gorilline adjective: similar to, characteristic of, or pertaining to gorillas.

Adjective

gorilline (not comparable)

Similar to, characteristic of, or pertaining to gorillas.
- If anything, the problem of gorilline origins is greater than that of human origins, for which there is a substantial fossil record stretching back to 4 m.y.ago.1985, Zeitschrift für Morphologie und Anthropologie, page 126
- The police raid the house, encountering a gorilline creature of fantastic strength-- but with a silver globe where its head should be.1990, Everett Franklin Bleiler, Science-fiction, the Early Years, page 525

gorilline (plural gorillines)

Any hominid in the proposed subfamily Gorillinae (corresponding to the tribus Gorillini).
- A very fragmentary canine tooth of a putative "gorilline” was reported by Cecchi and Pickford in 1989 from Nkondo, western Uganda, dating to perhaps 3.5 ma ( see Boaz, 1994 ).1995, Noel Thomas Boaz, Linda D. Wolfe, Biological Anthropology: The State of the Science, page 36
- In this contribution we adopt a less radical solution: we lump all the great apes into the family Hominidae; within that grouping, we recognizes ^([sic]) three living subfamilies, the Ponginae (or “pongines”) for the orangutans, the Gorillinae (or “gorillines”) for the gorillas, and the Homininae...2004, Joel Cracraft, Michael J. Donoghue, Assembling the Tree of Life, page 518

plural	gorillines

What does gorilline mean?: Gorilline means similar to, characteristic of, or pertaining to gorillas.
What part of speech is gorilline?: Gorilline can be an adjective or a noun.

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