Crossword clues for gibbon
gibbon
- English historian best known for his history of the Roman Empire (1737-1794)
- Smallest and most perfectly anthropoid arboreal ape having long arms and no tail
- Of southern Asia and East Indies
- Roman Empire expert
- Small ape
- Ape a historian
- Primate backing big toff from the east?
- Historian, a big swinger
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Gibbon \Gib"bon\, n. [Cf. F. gibbon.] (Zo["o]l.) 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.
Note: The white-handed gibbon ( Hylobates lar), the crowned ( H. pilatus), the wou-wou or singing gibbon ( H. agilis), the siamang, and the hoolock. are the most common species.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1770, from French gibbon (18c.), supposedly from a word in the French colonies of India but not found in any language there. Brought to Europe by Marquis Joseph-François Dupleix (1697-1763), French governor general in India 1742-54. The surname is Old French Giboin, from Frankish *Geba-win "gift-friend," or in some cases a diminutive of Gibb, itself a familiar form of Gilbert.
Wiktionary
n. A small ape of the family Hylobatidae with long limbs, which it uses to travel through rainforests by swinging from branch to branch.
Gazetteer
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FIPS code: 18615
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ZIP Codes (1990): 68840
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Location: 44.533200 N, 94.524178 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 55335
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Wikipedia
Gibbons are apes in the family Hylobatidae . The family historically contained one genus, but now is split into four genera and 17 species. Gibbons occur in tropical and subtropical rainforests from eastern Bangladesh and northeast India to southern China and Indonesia (including the islands of Sumatra, Borneo, and Java).
Also called the smaller apes or lesser apes, gibbons differ from great apes ( chimpanzees, bonobos, gorillas, orangutans, and humans) in being smaller, exhibiting low sexual dimorphism, and not making nests. In certain anatomical details, they superficially more closely resemble monkeys than great apes do, but like all apes, gibbons are tailless. Gibbons also display pair-bonding, maintaining the same mate for life, unlike most of the great apes (this has been disputed by Palombit and others, who have found that gibbons might be socially monogamous, with occasional "divorce", but not sexually monogamous). Gibbons are masters of their primary mode of locomotion, brachiation, swinging from branch to branch for distances up to , at speeds as high as . They can also make leaps up to , and walk bipedally with their arms raised for balance. They are the fastest and most agile of all tree-dwelling, nonflying mammals.
Depending on species and sex, gibbons' fur coloration varies from dark to light brown shades, and any shade between black and white, though a completely "white" gibbon is rare.
Gibbon species include the siamang, the white-handed or lar gibbon, and the hoolock gibbons.
Gibbons are apes in the family Hylobatidae.
Gibbon may also refer to:
Gibbon is the name of two fictional characters appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics.
Gibbon is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
- Edward Gibbon (1737–1794), English historian and MP, author of The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
- Edward Gibbon Wakefield (1796–1862), British politician
- Edward Howard-Gibbon (1799–1849), English surgeon, lawyer, and officer of arms
- John Gibbon (1827–1896), United States Army officer
- John Heysham Gibbon (1903–1973), US surgeon and inventor of the heart-lung machine
- Lardner A. Gibbon (1820–1910), US Navy lieutenant, Amazon explorer, co-author of Exploration of the Valley of the Amazon
- Lewis Grassic Gibbon (1901–1935), Scottish writer
- Ray Gibbon (died 1999), former mayor of St. Albert, Canada
- Roger Gibbon (born 1944), track cyclist from Trinidad and Tobago
- William Monk Gibbon (1896–1987), Irish poet and prolific author
Usage examples of "gibbon".
Lieutenant Gibbons had tried to kill Sharpe and how Patrick Harper had bayoneted the Lieutenant.
Many of his observations have been found as applicable to the work of Gibbon as to that of Le Beau.
In free-fall, he brachiated from handhold to handhold like an armored gibbon.
If we reckon the scepticism that Gibbon says characterized his time to have declined in ours, and if even a little of the rampant gullibility he attributes to late classical times is left over in ours, should we not expect something like demons to find a niche in the popular culture of the present?
As a madrigalist he was inferior to Morley, Wilbye and Gibbons, though even in this branch of his art he often displays great charm and individuality.
Ward Gibbon heard with horror from his son how the other kids at school called him Jungle Jim and Jim Nastics and Jimbo-Bimbo.
Gibbon roused himself to give instructions to the omniform utility robots who came to take it off.
I had to lead him by his trunk, out the Pachyderm House door, through which he barely fitted and where his presence scattered those conniving gibbons.
That siamang is eating one now--Symphalangus syndactylus--the black gibbon of Sumatra, largest of the gibbons.
Around them were the ordinary daylight sounds of the forest, to which they were now so accustomed--the raucous cries of birds, the terrific booming of siamang gibbons, the chattering of the lesser simians--but no sound came from the tiger.
Among the minority of adult male mammals that do offer their offspring paternal care are polygynous male zebras and gorillas with harems of females, male gibbons paired off with females as solitary couples, and saddleback tamarin monkeys, of which two adult males are kept as a harem by one polyan-drous adult female.
When the history of our decline and fall comes to be Written by some Australian Gibbon, the historian may choose the British bully and turfite to set alongside of the awful creatures who preyed on the rich fools of wicked old Rome.
The paragraphs upon it, Dean Milman considers the most uncandid in all the history, and they certainly do Gibbon no credit.
As I am a supersaturated Dickensite, I pounced on your book and read it, as Wegg read Gibbon and other authors, right slap through.
Guy Gibbon in his life was his first encounter with the Wyke entity, and like many a person before and since, he had not the faintest idea he had done so.