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japanzee

japanzee is the obsolete form of chimpanzee.

Meaning of chimpanzee

Noun

chimpanzee (plural chimpanzees)

  1. Pan troglodytes, a species of great ape native to the savannas and forests of Africa, and believed by biologists to be the closest extant relative to humans along with the bonobo.
    Synonyms:
    chimp
  2. (dated) A great ape of the genus Pan, including the bonobo which was formerly known as the pygmy chimpanzee.

Forms of japanzee

pluraljapanzees

Questions about japanzee

What is japanzee the obsolete form of?
Japanzee is the obsolete form of chimpanzee.

Words near japanzee in the dictionary

  1. Japanophones
  2. japans
  3. Japantown
  4. Japantowns
  5. japanware
  6. japanzee
  7. japanzees
  8. japas
  9. Japayuki-san
  10. japbenzaconine
  11. japchae

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Adapted from Wiktionary: japanzee (page history and authors); chimpanzee (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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