(kuyruksuz) maymun

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Definition of (kuyruksuz) maymun in Turkish English dictionary

ape

An animal of a class of primates generally larger than monkeys and distinguished from them by having no tail

Wild; crazy

He went ape when he heard the bad news.

{v} to imitate as an ape, imitate, mimic

{n} a kind of monkey, mimic, simpleton, fool

If you ape someone's speech or behaviour, you imitate it. Modelling yourself on someone you admire is not the same as aping all they say or do. = copy, imitate. Any of the tailless, anthropoid primates of two families: Hylobatidae (the lesser apes: gibbons and siamangs) and Pongidae (the great apes: chimpanzees, bonobos, orangutans, and gorillas). Apes are found in the tropical forests of western and central Africa and South Asia. They are distinguished from monkeys by having no tail, having an appendix, and having a more complex brain. Apes typically move about by swinging, and they tend to stand erect, occasionally walking on two feet. Highly intelligent animals, apes are more closely related to humans than are any other living primates. As a result of habitat destruction and hunting, all the apes are now regarded as endangered

Apes are chimpanzees, gorillas, and other animals in the same family

{i} monkey, simian

An uncivilised person

A quadrumanous mammal, esp

{f} mimic, imitate

To imitate

The higher forms, the gorilla, chimpanzee, and ourang, are often called anthropoid apes or man apes

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

The name is applied esp

to species of the genus Hylobates, and is sometimes used as a general term for all Quadrumana

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

any of various primates with short tails or no tail at all imitate uncritically and in every aspect; "Her little brother apes her behavior

Hyphenation

(kuy·ruk·suz) may·mun