ingena

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Etymology[edit]

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.) Perhaps from a language of Gabon.[1]

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Noun[edit]

ingena (plural ingenas)

  1. (obsolete) A gorilla.
    • 1998, Silke Strickrodt, Those Wild Scenes: Africa in the Travel Writings of Sarah Lee (1791-1856), page 97:
      Furthermore, Thomas Edward reports that the Ingenas carry 'their infant dead, closely pressed to them, until they drop away in putrefaction'.

References[edit]

  1. ^ Chris Herzfeld, The Great Apes: A Short History (2017), page 42: "Upon his return [from Gabon, which he visited after a mission to the Ashantee in Ghana], he [Bowdich] described several different species of primates, including the ingena, most likely a gorilla, which he differentiated from the inchego, or chimpanzee." Thomas S. Savage, Jeffries Wyman, Notice of the External Characters and Habits of Troglodytes (1847), page 419: "The "Ingena," referred to by Bowdich, in his mission to Ashantee, is probably the Engé-ena of the natives of the Gaboon, [] "

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