gorillas
Sayguh-RIL-uhz/ɡəˈɹɪl.əz/
- 1Plural of gorilla.
Mountain gorillas live in small family groups led by a dominant male.
Researchers tracked the gorillas through the dense forest for weeks.
Note
A regular plural, made with a plain -s, that carries every meaning of the singular. Besides the apes of central Africa, gorillas can be thugs and goons, or powerful heavyweight people and organizations. In British and Australian slang they can also be sums of a thousand pounds or dollars. Write it lowercase: the capitalized Gorilla is the name of the genus itself.
gorillas is a form of gorilla
gorilla, noun: The largest of the living primates, a knuckle-walking ape native to the forests of central Africa. Full entry
- Forms
- gorillagorillas plural
- Spelling
- gorilla → gorillas: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /z/.
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