Gorilline
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Gorilline is an adjective meaning Similar to, characteristic of, or pertaining to gorillas.
Meaning
Similar to, characteristic of, or pertaining to gorillas.
More Meanings
- (zoology) Any hominid in the proposed subfamily Gorillinae (corresponding to the tribus Gorillini).
Example Sentences
The police raid the house, encountering a gorilline creature of fantastic strength-- but with a silver globe where its head should be.
If anything, the problem of gorilline origins is greater than that of human origins, for which there is a substantial fossil record stretching back to 4 m.y.ago.
This leaves us with the possibility, disquieting to current anthropological assumptions, that the massive-jawed Heidelberg man did not necessarily have a gorilline cranium.
A very fragmentary canine tooth of a putative "gorilline” was reported by Cecchi and Pickford in 1989 from Nkondo, western Uganda, dating to perhaps 3.5 ma ( see Boaz, 1994 ).
Word Forms
- gorillines
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include gorillalike, gorilla-like, chimpanzeelike, gorilloid, baboonlike, lemurlike.
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