GIBBON as NOUN

1. Meaning
   • smallest and most perfectly anthropoid arboreal ape having long arms and no tail
   • of southern Asia and East Indies
   Synonym(s)
   • Hylobates lar (what does Hylobates lar mean?)
   Hypernyms(s) gibbon is a kind of… Example: animal is a hypernym of mammal, plant is a hypernym of flower
   • lesser ape (what does lesser ape mean?)
2. Meaning
   • English historian best known for his history of the Roman Empire (1737-1794)
   Synonym(s)
   • Edward Gibbon (what does Edward Gibbon mean?)
   Hypernyms(s) Gibbon is a kind of… Example: animal is a hypernym of mammal, plant is a hypernym of flower
   • historian (what does historian mean?)
   • historiographer (what does historiographer mean?)