Contextualizebeta

chimponaut

noun

Etymology

Blend of chimp + astronaut.

  1. derived from ἄστρον — “star”
  2. compounded as chimponaut — “chimp + astronaut”

Definitions

  1. A chimpanzee used in a spaceflight programme.

    • After two hours of fussing, Enos. the 5½-year-old chimponaut, was ready to ride the first passenger-carrying orbital flight of U.S. Project Mercury.
    • But scientists around the world have also performed studies that are now considered bizarre or brutal. The U.S. Air Force’s chimponaut program shot them into space.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for chimponaut. 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