noun 1. any of a group of anthropoid primates characterized by long arms, a broad chest, and the absence of a tail, comprising the family Pongidae (great ape), which ...
Apes are Old World anthropoid mammals, more specifically a clade of tailless catarrhine primates, belonging to the biological superfamily Hominoidea. The apes are ...
Definition of APE. 1. a: monkey; especially: one of the larger tailless or short-tailed Old World forms b: any of two families (Pongidae and Hylobatidae) of large ...
