noun. Any of various tailless Old World primates of the superfamily Hominoidea, including the gibbons, orangutans, gorillas, chimpanzees, and humans.

noun. Any of various members of this superfamily bearing fur and usually living in the wild, especially orangutans, gorillas, and chimpanzees, in contrast to humans. Not in scientific use.

noun. A tailed primate such as a monkey. Not in scientific use.

noun. A mimic or imitator.

noun. A clumsy or boorish person.

transitive verb. To imitate or mimic, especially in a thoughtless or inept way. synonym: imitate.

idiom. (go ape) To become wildly excited or angry.

To imitate servilely; mimic, as an ape imitates human actions.

Synonyms Mimic, etc.

noun. A monkey; a quadrumanous animal; some animal of the old order Quadrumana; a member of one of the modern families Simiidœ, Cynopithecidœ, and Cebidœ, especially one which attracts attention by mimicking man.

noun. More specifically, a tailless monkey; a monkey with a very short tail; a magot, macaque, or pig-tailed baboon: as, the Barbary ape (Inuus ecaudatus); the Celebes black ape (Cynopithecus niger).

noun. Technically, a man-like monkey; a simian proper, or a member of the modern family Simiidœ, forming a kind of connecting link between man and the lower animals, and hence termed anthroid (which see).

noun. An imitator; a mimic.

noun. A mischievous or silly mimic; hence, a fool; a dupe.

noun. Gunnera petaloidea, a plant of the high mountain slopes of Hawaii, bearing large, broad, reniform leaves from two to three feet in width.

noun. A name in the Hawaiian and Society islands of Alocasia macrorhiza, an aroid plant with large, oval, sagittate leaves.

transitive verb. To mimic, as an ape imitates human actions; to imitate or follow servilely or irrationally.

noun. A quadrumanous mammal, esp. of the family Simiadæ, having teeth of the same number and form as in man, and possessing neither a tail nor cheek pouches. The name is applied esp. to species of the genus Hylobates, and is sometimes used as a general term for all Quadrumana. The higher forms, the gorilla, chimpanzee, and ourang, are often called anthropoid apes or man apes.

noun. One who imitates servilely (in allusion to the manners of the ape); a mimic.

noun. A dupe.

noun. A primate of the clade Hominoidea, generally larger than monkeys and distinguished from them by having no tail.

noun. Any such primate other than a human.

noun. An uncivilised person.

verb. To behave like an ape.

verb. To imitate; mimic.

adjective. Wild; crazy.

verb. imitate uncritically and in every aspect

verb. represent in or produce a caricature of

noun. any of various primates with short tails or no tail at all

noun. person who resembles a nonhuman primate

noun. someone who copies the words or behavior of another

"May be they are veridical observations of some enormous rare ape mistaken for an ˜ape - man™ or may be just erroneous observations of sociopaths in Yak coats?"

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