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red ape

red ape noun: synonym of orangutan (Pongo spp.).

Noun

red ape (plural red apes)

  1. Synonym of orangutan (Pongo spp.).
    • In Borneo the red ape inhabits the swampy forest-tract at the foot of the mountains.1911, The Encyclopaedia Britannica
    • Instead the red apes had fallen back farther into the forest and I could judge what effect this would have on the reproductive activity of the population from my Bornean findings1974, John Ramsay MacKinnon, In search of the red ape, page 208
    Synonyms:
    orangutan
  2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see red, ape.

Examples of red ape in a sentence

  • The three African genera of apes, as Goodman saw them, are more similar to each other than any of them was to the red ape of Borneo and Sumatra.2001, David Quammen, The Boilerplate Rhino: Nature in the Eye of the Beholder, →ISBN:
  • Although captive red apes are avid tool users, the most striking feature of tool use among the wild orangutans observed until then was its absence.2007, Michael Alan Park, Biological Anthropology: An Introductory Reader, →ISBN, page 62:

Synonyms of red ape

Forms of red ape

pluralred apes

Questions about red ape

What does red ape mean?
Red ape means synonym of orangutan (Pongo spp.).
How do you use red ape in a sentence?
The three African genera of apes, as Goodman saw them, are more similar to each other than any of them was to the red ape of Borneo and Sumatra.
What part of speech is red ape?
Red ape is a noun.
What is the plural of red ape?
The plural of red ape is red apes.

Words near red ape in the dictionary

  1. red algae
  2. red and silver dewdrop
  3. red ant
  4. red antimony
  5. red ants
  6. red ape
  7. red apes
  8. red apple
  9. red apples
  10. Red Army
  11. Red Army Faction

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