Usually means: Small, arboreal, long-armed ape.
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  1. Gibbon, gibbon: Merriam-Webster
  2. gibbon: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. gibbon: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. gibbon: Collins English Dictionary
  5. Gibbon, gibbon: Vocabulary.com
  6. Gibbon, gibbon: Wordnik
  7. gibbon: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Gibbon, gibbon: Wiktionary
  9. gibbon: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. gibbon: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. gibbon: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Gibbon, gibbon: Dictionary.com
  13. gibbon: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. Gibbon (comics), Gibbon (disambiguation), Gibbon (surname), Gibbon: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Gibbon: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. gibbon: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. gibbon: Rhymezone
  18. Gibbon: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. gibbon: FreeDictionary.org
  20. gibbon: Mnemonic Dictionary
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  22. gibbon: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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Definitions from Wiktionary (Gibbon)

▸ noun:  A small ape of the family Hylobatidae with long limbs, which it uses to travel through rainforests by swinging from branch to branch.
▸ noun:  A surname.

Similar:
hylobates lar, agile gibbon, lar gibbon, black-handed gibbon, hylobatid, lesser ape, common gibbon, white-handed gibbon, pileated gibbon, wow-wow, more...

Types:
siamang, hoolock, agile, white-handed, pileated, more...

Phrases:
Edward Gibbon, John Gibbon, hoolock gibbon, lar gibbon, agile gibbon, more...

Adjectives:
fitz, handed, young, great, old, modern, black, female, giant, lar, little

Colors:
    beige,     taupe,     olive,     khaki,     sand, more...


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Similar:
hylobates lar, agile gibbon, lar gibbon, black-handed gibbon, hylobatid, lesser ape, common gibbon, white-handed gibbon, pileated gibbon, wow-wow, more...

Types:
siamang, hoolock, agile, white-handed, pileated, more...

Phrases:
Edward Gibbon, John Gibbon, hoolock gibbon, lar gibbon, agile gibbon, pileated gibbon, gibbon edward, white-handed gibbon, white handed gibbon, Lewis Grassic Gibbon, gibbon lewis grassic, potto gibbon, more...

Adjectives:
fitz, handed, young, great, old, modern, black, female, giant, lar, little

Colors:
    beige,     taupe,     olive,     khaki,     sand, more...



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