[gib-uh
n] 
| any small, slender, long-armed arboreal anthropoid ape of the genus Hylobates, of the East Indies and southern Asia: all gibbon species are reduced in number and some are very rare. |
[gib-uhn] | Edward, 1737–94, English historian. |
| gib·bon (gĭb'ən) n. Any of several small arboreal apes of the genus Hylobates of southeast Asia and the East Indies, having a slender body, long arms, and no tail. [French.] |
| Gib·bon (gĭb'ən) British historian who wrote the classic text The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (1776-1788). |