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n. Any of various large, tailless Old World primates of the family Pongidae, including the chimpanzee, gorilla, gibbon, and orangutan.

n. A monkey.

n. A mimic or imitator.

n. Informal A clumsy or boorish person.

v. To mimic slavishly but often with an absurd result. See Synonyms at imitate.

idiom. go ape Informal To become wildly excited or enthusiastic: went ape at the party; goes ape over Thai cuisine.

n. A primate of the clade Hominoidea, generally larger than monkeys and distinguished from them by having no tail.

n. Any such primate other than a human.

n. An uncivilised person.

v. To behave like an ape.

v. To imitate; mimic.

adj. Wild; crazy.

n. A quadrumanous mammal, esp. of the family Simiadæ, having teeth of the same number and form as in man, and possessing neither a tail nor cheek pouches. The name is applied esp. to species of the genus Hylobates, and is sometimes used as a general term for all Quadrumana. The higher forms, the gorilla, chimpanzee, and ourang, are often called anthropoid apes or man apes.

n. One who imitates servilely (in allusion to the manners of the ape); a mimic.

n. A dupe.

v. To mimic, as an ape imitates human actions; to imitate or follow servilely or irrationally.

n. A monkey; a quadrumanous animal; some animal of the old order Quadrumana; a member of one of the modern families Simiidœ, Cynopithecidœ, and Cebidœ, especially one which attracts attention by mimicking man.

n. More specifically, a tailless monkey; a monkey with a very short tail; a magot, macaque, or pig-tailed baboon: as, the Barbary ape (Inuus ecaudatus); the Celebes black ape (Cynopithecus niger).

n. Technically, a man-like monkey; a simian proper, or a member of the modern family Simiidœ, forming a kind of connecting link between man and the lower animals, and hence termed anthroid (which see).

n. An imitator; a mimic.

n. A mischievous or silly mimic; hence, a fool; a dupe.

To imitate servilely; mimic, as an ape imitates human actions.

Synonyms Mimic, etc.

n. Gunnera petaloidea, a plant of the high mountain slopes of Hawaii, bearing large, broad, reniform leaves from two to three feet in width.

n. A name in the Hawaiian and Society islands of Alocasia macrorhiza, an aroid plant with large, oval, sagittate leaves.

v. imitate uncritically and in every aspect

v. represent in or produce a caricature of

n. any of various primates with short tails or no tail at all

n. person who resembles a nonhuman primate

n. someone who copies the words or behavior of another

"On the top of this tree, in among the branches, sat a monkey -- at least so Ailie called it; but the term ape or baboon would have been more appropriate, for the creature was a very large one, and, if the expression of its countenance indicated in any degree the feelings of its heart, also a very fierce one -- an exceedingly ferocious one indeed."

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imitate    mock    misfit   

to lead apes in hell    to say an ape's paternoster    barbary ape    to put an ape in one's hood    monkey    Animals   

anthropoid apes    man apes   

aped    aping   

mimic    dupe    simian    imitator    imitate   

Cape    Snape    agape    cape    crepe    drape    escape    gape    grape    knape   

monkey    gorilla    baboon    lizard    tiger    boar    serpent    leopard    alligator    elephant