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chimpanzee (n.)
Related entries & more large type of West African ape, 1738, from a Bantu language of Angola (compare Tshiluba kivili-chimpenze "ape").
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chimp (n.)
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bonobo (n.)pygmy chimpanzee, 1954, from a native name.
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