lesser ape

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   gibbons and siamangs

   Broaderanthropoid ape

   Narrowergibbonsiamang

   Part ofHylobatidae

Questions about lesser ape

What does lesser ape mean?

lesser ape means "gibbons and siamangs".

Is lesser ape a common word?

lesser ape is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.