gorillas
Meaning of gorillas
plural noun
a powerfully built great ape with a large head and short neck, found in the forests of central Africa. It is the largest living primate.
from an alleged African word for a wild or hairy person, found in the Greek account of the voyage of the Carthaginian explorer Hanno in the 5th or 6th century BC; adopted in 1847 as the specific name of the ape.
Information about gorillas
- It is a name.
- The singular form of gorillas is: gorilla.
- Languages in which gorillas is used:
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Hyphenation of gorillas
go-ril-las
- It consists of 3 syllables and 8 chars.
- gorillas is a word trisyllabic because it has three syllables
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