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chimpanzee

chim.pan.zee \.chim-.pan-'ze-, .shim-, -p*n-; chim-'pan-ze-, shim-\ n 
   [Kongo dial. -chimpenzi] : an anthropoid ape (Pan troglodytes) of 
   equatorial Africa that is s maller, more arboreal, and less fierce than the 
   gorilla