"red ape" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: red apes [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} red ape (plural red apes)
  1. Synonym of orangutan Synonyms: orangutan [synonym, synonym-of]
    Sense id: en-red_ape-en-noun-FK64-Ebu
  2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see red, ape. Categories (lifeform): Hominids
    Sense id: en-red_ape-en-noun-9~ybjr6c Disambiguation of Hominids: 8 92 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 43 57 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 22 78 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 14 86

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          "ref": "2001, David Quammen, The Boilerplate Rhino: Nature in the Eye of the Beholder, →ISBN:",
          "text": "Then a biologist named Morris goodman published a few papers, based also on immunological comparisons, in which he noted strong similarities among the blood protiens of chimpanzees, gorillas, and humans. On these molecular grounds, Goodman argued, the genera Pan and Gorilla belonged with Homo in the family Hominidae, rather than with the orangutan in Pongidae. The three African genera of apes, as Goodman saw them, are more similar to each other than any of them was to the red ape of Borneo and Sumatra.",
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