Any of the large anthropoid apes of the family Pongidae

Usage examples of pongid.

Your bar-bar is smarter than your Runner, and these pre-sapients are smarter in turn than the pongid species, the Elves and Nutcrackers.

But without such beliefs man would never have left the trees and the caves, and remained like our pre-sapient and pongid cousins.

They crept like shadows through that forest, closing on those helpless pongids like Death himself.

Carys raced down the broad, open stairs with a delighted yelp and had to fend off the pongid imitations of her husband as he caught up with her just before the pod exit.

To the oohing and ahing of the audience these hallucinatory creatures advanced on my pongid counterpart, their eyes scintillating like topazes.

The Canadian biologists who discovered a relict North Ameri­can breeding band of the huge pongids in a remote valley west of Mount Jacobsen in British Columbia referred to them by the traditional name of Bigfoot and established the first refuge.

The remaining three pongids, approaching or even exceeding man in size, are lumped together as the "great apes.