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# gibbon

«gibbon» in Mova's school dictionary: **a small ape with very long arms and no tail that lives in…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 3 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a gibbon, gibbons)

### meaning for a pupil

A gibbon is a small ape with very long arms and no tail that lives in the rainforests of Southeast Asia and swings quickly from branch to branch through the trees. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gibbon/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

In science lessons about primates and rainforests, gibbons are the fastest tree-swinging animals (this way of moving is called brachiation), and they sing loud songs in the morning, often in pairs, to mark their territory. Many gibbons are endangered because forests are cut down. Phrases: swing like a gibbon, gibbon song, lesser apes.

### examples

- The gibbon swung from branch to branch at high speed. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gibbon/#x1)
- Gibbons sing loud songs every morning. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gibbon/#x2)
- A gibbon's arms are longer than its legs. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gibbon/#x3)
- Gibbons do not have tails. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gibbon/#x4)
- The gibbon pair sang together to tell others to keep away. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gibbon/#x5)
- Gibbons live in the forests of Southeast Asia. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gibbon/#x6)
- Many kinds of gibbons are in danger because of logging. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gibbon/#x7)
- At the zoo we watched the gibbons swinging on ropes. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gibbon/#x8)

### note

Countable: a gibbon, gibbons. Pronounced «GIB-un». Trap: gibbons are apes, not monkeys, because they have no tails; they are called «lesser apes», smaller than the great apes (gorillas, chimpanzees, orangutans, bonobos). Edward Gibbon was a famous historian, a name.

### In the corpora

- [Gibbons are small apes that sing loud duets, male and female together, heard about a kilometre away.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/85-ape-house-orangutans-gibbons-bonobos/8/)
- [Swinging arm over arm is called brachiation; gibbons are the fastest apes in the trees, reported at around 50 kilometres per hour.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/85-ape-house-orangutans-gibbons-bonobos/9/)
- [Like all apes, orangutans, gibbons and bonobos have no tails.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/85-ape-house-orangutans-gibbons-bonobos/15/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «gibbon» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gibbon/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.