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GIBBON
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Son of Gilbert
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Son of Gilbert.
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English : patronymic from Gibbon 1.German : patronymic from a short form of a Germanic personal name formed with geba ‘gift’.
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English : from the medieval personal name Gibbon, a pet form of Gibb.
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English : patronymic from Gibbon.
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English : patronymic from Gibbon 1.
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English : patronymic from a variant of the personal name Gibbon, a pet form of Gibb.
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n.
The agile, or silvery, gibbon; -- called also camper. See Gibbon.
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A gibbon (Hylobates syndactylus), native of Sumatra. It has the second and third toes partially united by a web.
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A small black gibbon (Hylobates hoolock), found in the mountains of Assam.
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Any species of the genus Hylobates; a gibbon, or long-armed ape. See Gibbon.
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A species of gibbon (Hylobates lar), found in Burmah. Called also white-handed gibbon.
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The crowned gibbon (Hylobates pileatus), native of Siam, Southern China, and the Island of Hainan. It is entirely arboreal in its habits, and has very long arms. the males are dark brown or blackish, with a caplike mass of long dark hair, and usually with a white band around the face. The females are yellowish white, with a dark spot on the breast and another on the crown. Called also wooyen, and wooyen ape.
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The agile gibbon; -- called also ungka-pati, and ungka-etam. See Gibbon.
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Any arboreal ape of the genus Hylobates, of which many species and varieties inhabit the East Indies and Southern Asia. They are tailless and without cheek pouches, and have very long arms, adapted for climbing.
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Having long arms; as, the long-armed ape or gibbon.