Crossword clues for great ape
Wiktionary
n. An ape of the family http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hominidae, having a mostly hairless face, hands with complex fingerprints, and flat fingernails. Includes chimpanzees and gorillas (subfamily http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homininae), and orangutans (subfamily http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ponginae). Usage may vary to either include or exclude humans (members of Homininae subfamily).
WordNet
n. any of the large anthropoid apes of the family Pongidae [syn: pongid]
Usage examples of "great ape".
He has even had a Negro chief from the Western forest as his guest of honor, and once he invited the aristocracy of Castrum Mare to meet a great ape.
He watched it intently as it rose higher and higher until he was able to distinguish its form more clearly, with the result that he became convinced that it more nearly resembled some form of great ape than a lower order.
At the point in the boma where Tarzan had blocked the entrance, she started to pull away the thorn bushes, and, when Zu-tag saw what she was doing, he fell to and assisted her so that presently they had an opening through the boma through which she passed with the great ape.
The boy did not cry out -- a trait inherited from his savage sire whom long years in the jungle following the death of his foster mother, Kala the great ape, had taught that there was none to come to the succor of the fallen.
I saw some pictures of the Great Ape on the eleven o'clock news before I left.