chuman

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English

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Etymology

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Blend of chimpanzee or chimp + human.

Noun

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chuman (plural chumans)

  1. A hypothetical hybrid of a male chimpanzee and a female human.
    Synonym: chimphuman
    Coordinate terms: humanzee, manpanzee
    • 2016, Itai Yanai, Lercher Martin, The Society of Genes, Harvard University Press, →ISBN, page 151:
      The chuman had been sheer fantasy. Oliver was an unusual chimp, yet a chimp just the same. But what really stands in the way of a chuman? Did chumans ever exist?

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