chimpkind

English

Etymology

From chimp +‎ -kind.

Noun

chimpkind (uncountable)

  1. The chimpanzee species in its entirety.
    Hypernyms: animalkind, mammalkind
    • 2007, Max Oelschlaeger, “Boundaries and Darwin: Bridging the Great Divide”, in Charles S. Brown, Ted Toadvine, editors, Nature's Edge: Boundary Explorations in Ecological Theory and Practice, State University of New York Press, →ISBN, page 7:
      The one percent of difference between human and chimpkind, as it turns out, makes all the difference.
    • 2008, BBC Wildlife, volume 26, numbers 1-7, page 83:
      He achieved great PR for chimpkind and even made the front cover of Life magazine.
    • 2014 July 1, Steve Rose, “Dawn of the Planet of the Apes: a primate scream - first look review”, in The Guardian:
      It's another seamless motion-capture performance by Andy Serkis (though to me Caesar looks more like chimpkind's answer to Sean Bean) and the film's biggest weakness is that homo sapiens offers little to rival it.
    • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:chimpkind.
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