Gibbon (n.)

  1. English historian best known for his history of the Roman Empire (1737-1794)

    [ Syn: gibbon , edward gibbon ]

  2. smallest and most perfectly anthropoid arboreal ape having long arms and no tail; of southern Asia and East Indies

    [ Syn: hylobates lar ]

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