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Gorillai
Ancient Greek · c. 500 BC
"a tribe of hairy people"
from an account of Hanno the Navigator describing hairy people on the West African coast
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gorilla
English · 1847
"the great ape species"
revived by naturalist Thomas Savage to name the newly described great ape
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