gorillalike 的定义
- a terrestrial, largely vegetarian great ape of the genus Gorilla, inhabiting central African forests: possessing great upper body strength, with arms longer and more muscular than its legs, it is noted for its knuckle-walking and is larger than any other living primate.See also Cross River gorilla, eastern gorilla, eastern lowland gorilla, mountain gorilla, western gorilla, western lowland gorilla.
- an ugly, brutish person.
- Slang. a hoodlum or thug, especially one who threatens or inflicts violence: Like any mob boss, he sent his gorillas to do the dirty work.
- Disparaging and Offensive.
gorillalike 近义词
等同于 burly
更多gorillalike例句
- Francine Patterson is the animal psychologist who became famous for training Koko the gorilla to communicate using what she called “Gorilla Sign Language.”
- BlackRock, Wall Street’s 800-pound gorilla, is putting climate change risk at the center of its investing strategy.
- The San Diego Zoo’s description of an October incident when gorillas in an exhibit got into a rumble and broke a layer of the window glass separating the animals from peopleEven the gorillas are sick of this year.
- He’s the 900-pound gorilla when it comes to the Republican Party.
- As she imaged more and more, “I started to get a feel for the difference between human and gorilla hearts,” says Kutinsky.
- Sitting up there at that little spindly-legged organ, he looked enormous, bigger than life, like a gorilla at a harpsichord.
- Then twelve guys come out and beat the gorilla over the head.
- Kerr was adamant that the gorilla tie was not a statement about evolution, but “about life.”
- In Uganda, the World Wildlife Fund estimates each gorilla rakes in $1 million in revenue each year.
- A hunter comes across a sickly gorilla, too weak to defend itself from the blows of his cleaver.
- Again, we have the fact that man possesses normally only twelve ribs, one less than is found in the gorilla and the chimpanzee.
- The young gorilla which was kept in captivity at Berlin became quite omnivorous in its diet.
- It is shortest in the chimpanzee, somewhat longer in the gorilla, still longer in the orang, and remarkably long in the gibbon.
- It would be as useful to attempt to give the history of the gorilla as of man in the early stages of his progress.
- The "Gorilla Warfare" (mentioned last week) having failed, the enemy tries a new dodge.