Dictionary Entry

apes

Part of SpeechnounPronunciation/eɪps/Used In Literature ↓

A primate of the clade Hominoidea, generally larger than monkeys and distinguished from them by having no tail.

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Common Phrases

. apesapes greatapes anthropoidapes higherapes african

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Poetry examples for “apes”

Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.

2. Academic silks, cf, Prologue, 143.
i ro iheg epee: » apes, erie “boss” of a shield.
. frieze, that part of the building, in classic architect ie

Here's at you, once more.
You Apes! You Jack-fools!
You can show me the door,

= oe seeee ls
EH APES

Its ancient tillage all gone back to bog;
A busy synod of blest cats and apes
Exposing the poor trick of earth and star

And daily strut the street with bows and scrapes,
Who would be men by imitating apes.
I beg your pardon, reader, for the oath

Live now or never!"
He said, "What's time? Leave Now for dogs and apes!
Man has Forever."

Ebbbes ss Aes
APES POR.

From the parrots translating the cry,
And the apes in the trees came the whine:
"Beware of the trumpeting swine.