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gibbon

9 ENTRIES FOUND:
  1. gibbon (noun)
  2. Gibbon (biographical name)
  3. agile gibbon (noun)
  4. lar gibbon (noun)
  5. silver gibbon (noun)
  6. silvery gibbon (noun)
  7. singing gibbon (noun)
  8. whitehanded gibbon (noun)
  9. hulock (noun)

gib·bon

noun \ˈgi-bən\

Definition of GIBBON

: any of a genus (Hylobates of the family Hylobatidae) of agile brachiating tailless apes of southeastern Asia that are the smallest and most arboreal anthropoid apes
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Origin of GIBBON

French
First Known Use: 1774

Other Mammals Terms

dormouse, dugong, grimalkin, sable, stoat, ungulate, vole

Rhymes with GIBBON

Gibbon, ribbon

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