bonobo

noun
/bəˈnəʊ̯ˌbəʊ̯/UK/bəˈnoʊ̯ˌboʊ̯/US

Etymology

From Bolobo, a village on the Congo River where Europeans first made contact with the species. Bolobo is possibly imitative of the bubbling of the rapids at that section of the Congo.

Definitions

  1. A great ape, Pan paniscus, from Africa south of the Congo river.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for bonobo. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA