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western gorilla

[ wes-tern guh-ril-uh ]

noun

  1. a blackish or dark gray gorilla ( Gorilla gorilla ), often with a distinctive reddish brown forehead: its two subspecies, the western lowland gorilla and the rare Cross River gorilla, are both critically endangered.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of western gorilla1

First recorded in 1920–25

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