Word Finder - gorilla

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The largest of the apes, native to the forests of central Africa, and known for their trait of knuckle-walking.

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A big and brutish man or a thug; a goon or ruffian.

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A powerful person or organization; a heavyweight or behemoth.

The gorilla in the room was finally introduced by Molly.

The differences between a gorilla's skull and a man's are truly immense.

The other four trunks displayed like goods—a moth-eaten gorilla suit, two bloody collections of dresses, and an outfit Dean supposed Frankenstein wore when he went out for a little nightlife.

The largest proportional size of the facial bones, and the great projection of the jaws, confer on the gorilla's skull its small facial angle and brutal character,while its teeth differ from man's in relative size and number of fangs.

The other four trunks displayed like goods—a moth-eaten gorilla suit, two bloody collections of dresses, and an outfit Dean supposed Frankenstein wore when he went out for a little nightlife.

Naomi Watts is the perfect foil to the ten-ton grumpy gorilla, who savages his way through tropical Jurassic forestland and 1930's Manhattan alike.

In most of these markets, Sony has become the 800-pound gorilla.

The forests in the east of the DRC are the last home of the Eastern lowland gorilla.

Everyone who takes part will be wearing a full gorilla costume - working to save the world's last mountain gorilla costume - working to save the world's last mountain gorillas.

The older method was to attempt the comparison between the highest member of a lower group and the lowest member of a higher group - to suppose, for example, that the gorilla and the chimpanzee, the highest members of the apes, were the existing representatives of the ancestors of man and to compare these forms with the lowest members of the human race.

This account does not by any means accord with one given by von Koppenfels, in which it is stated that while the old male gorilla sleeps in a sitting posture at the base of a tree-trunk (no mention being made of a bed), the female and young ones pass the night in a nest in the tree several yards above the ground, made by bending the boughs together and covering them with twigs and moss.

You were n't half a rotten swine, Captain, sending him in there with that gorilla alone?

Michelle "Bombshel" McGee - if you think that nickname is bad, she claims to have nicknamed him "Vanilla Gorilla," which isn't exactly cute, right?

Thus the gorilla runs with a sidelong shambling gait, but more commonly progresses by resting on its bent hands.

Another in a slew of films of the period featuring a gorilla on the rampage.

Recruiting a scriptwriter, an actress and a couple of sailors, the group goes on a perilous journey to a place where dinosaurs, savage islanders and the 25-foot tall King Kong gorilla roam freely.

He is a powerful gorilla who can take on a V-Rex.

By all accounts, Peter Jackson did a fantastic job recreating the classic science fiction movie featuring a giant gorilla.

Donkey Kong - Platform, puzzle and many other types of games starring Nintendo's early character, the gorilla named Donkey Kong.

The PS2 is the first current four-hundred-pound gorilla of the console gaming world - and thus the gaming world.

It was particularly pleasing to fans of the "sports entertainment" to be able to do moves like the "million dollar dream", "gorilla press", and Jake the Snake Robert's signature "DDT."

Sony, now the 400-pound gorilla of the video game console world, is poised to bring out the third version of its record-breaking PlayStation.

On a blog called AmigurumiParadise, the author offers a free pattern she developed as a treat for her amigurumi gorilla.

The boxer shorts are made from 100 percent cotton and include a graphic gorilla print on the front and the words "It's Monkey Time" on the back.

To a gorilla the size of Kong, the character Ann Darrow, played, in her most famous movie role by Fay Wray, must have appeared mouselike.

This makes the improbable attraction between ape and woman must less risible; just as kittens and puppies raised together bond as a pack, so a girl and gorilla might form a familial bond.

In fact, Godzilla's original name was a combination of two Japanese words that meant "gorilla whale."

Between the typical West African chimpanzee and the gorilla there is no difficulty in drawing a distinction; the difficulty comes in when we have to deal with the aberrant races, or species, of chimpanzee, some of which are so gorilla-like that it is by no means easy to determine to which group they really pertain.

From this appears that Battel was familiar with both the chimpanzee and the gorilla, the former of which he terms engeco and the latter pongo - names which ought apparently to be adopted for these two species in place of those now in use.

So long ago as the year 1855, when the species was known to zoologists only by its skeleton, a gorilla was actually living in England.

Comparing the lengths of the extremities, it is seen that the gorilla's arm is of enormous length, in fact about one-sixth longer than the spine, whereas a man's arm is one-fifth shorter than the spine; both hand and foot are proportionally much longer in the gorilla than in man; the leg does not so much differ.

The hand of the gorilla corresponds essentially as to bones and muscles with that of man, but is clumsier and heavier; its thumb is " opposable " like a human thumb, that is, it can easily meet with its extremity the extremities of the other fingers, thus possessing a character which does much to make the human hand so admirable an instrument; but the gorilla's thumb is proportionately shorter than man's.

The elephant (though its range has become restricted through the attacks of hunters) is found both in the savannas and forest regions, the latter being otherwise poor in large game, though the special habitat of the chimpanzee and gorilla.

The gorilla was summarily returned to his cage and the evening progressed without further uncomfortable references to the future.

So they probably view us as a " lesser threat " -- (compared to the 800 lb gorilla in Redmond ).

Then you would be getting 80 times more PageRank boost from the Ugly Duckling website than you would from the 500 pound gorilla website.

There was also a baby gorilla being carried around on his mother's back.

You weren't half a rotten swine, Captain, sending him in there with that gorilla alone?

Enjoy the Gorilla Swing, elephant slide, and Tipping Tree Frogs.

Since it's release earlier this year, Guild Wars has seen nothing short of success in the shadow of Blizzard's eight-hundred pound gorilla, The World of Warcraft.

Till recently these apes have been generally included in the same family (Simiidae) with the chimpanzee, gorilla and orang-utan, but they are now regarded by several naturalists as representing a family by themselves - the Hylobatidae.

The celebrated ape "Mafuka," which lived in the Dresden zoological gardens during 1875, and came from Loango, was apparently a member of this species, although it was at one time regarded as a hybrid between a chimpanzee and a gorilla.

The first complete skeleton of a gorilla sent to Europe was received at the museum of the Royal College of Surgeons in 1851, and the first complete skin appears to have reached the British Museum in 1858.

On the old clearings of another village Mr Bates himself, although he did not see a gorilla, saw the fresh tracks of these great apes and the torn stems and discarded fruit rinds of the "mejoms," as well as the broken stalks of the latter, which had been used for beds.

Falkenstein's gorilla, exhibited at the Westminster aquarium under the name of pongo, and afterwards at the Berlin aquarium, survived for eighteen months.

The gorilla's brain-case is smaller, its trunk larger, its lower limbs shorter, its upper limbs longer in proportion than those of man.

In man the occipital foramen, through which passes the spinal cord, is placed just behind the centre of the base of the skull, which is thus evenly balanced in the erect posture, whereas the gorilla, which goes habitually on all fours, and whose skull is inclined forward, in accordance with this posture has the foramen farther back.

In man the surface of the skull is comparatively smooth, and the brow-ridges project but little, while in the gorilla these ridges overhang the cavernous orbits like penthouse roofs.

The absolute capacity of the cranium of the gorilla is far less than that of man; the smallest adult human cranium hardly measuring less than 63 cub.

The vertebral column of the gorilla differs from that of man in its curvature and other characters, as also does the conformation of its narrow pelvis.