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Meaning of 猿

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Pinyin: yuán
English Definition: ape
Chinese Definition:
①哺乳动物,与猴相似,比猴大,颊下没有囊,没有尾巴,猩猩、大猩猩、长臂猿等都是:猿猴。猿人。
Total strokes: 13; Radical:
Pictophonetic: indicates the sound; (animal) conveys the meaning.
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Example Words
猿人 yuán rén apeman
类人猿 lèi rén yuán hominid
北京猿人 běi jīng yuán rén Peking ape-man; Homo erectus pekinensis (c. 600,000 BC), discovered in Zhoukoudian 周口店 in 1921
长臂猿 cháng yuán gibbon; Hylobatidae (gibbon and lesser ape family)
猿猴 yuán hóu apes and monkeys
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Example Sentences
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All of the big apes are now considered endangered.
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Ape conservation tackles both of these issues head on.
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DNA
He and his colleagues found the same borna virus DNA in apes and monkeys.
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Supporters of the knuckle-walking origin think we and African apes evolved from a common knuckle walking ancestor.
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The skull,torso and upper and lower limbs,including the hand, show both human and ape-like features.