chimpanzees
- 1Plural of chimpanzee.
Researchers observed how the chimpanzees used sticks to fish for termites.
A troop of chimpanzees moved through the forest canopy at dawn.
Note
A regular plural, made with a plain -s, so the possessive is written with the apostrophe after it: the chimpanzees' tools. In strict zoological use it means members of Pan troglodytes. More loosely it can cover the whole genus Pan, including the bonobo, which was once called the pygmy chimpanzee. When the difference matters, name the bonobo separately.
chimpanzees is a form of chimpanzee
chimpanzee, noun: A great ape native to the savannas and forests of Africa, considered along with the bonobo to be humans' closest living relative. Full entry
- Forms
- chimpanzeechimpanzees plural
- Spelling
- chimpanzee → chimpanzees: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /z/.
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