Other forms: gorillas
A gorilla is the biggest and strongest of the apes. A silverback gorilla, mountain gorillas, a gorilla troop.
They are almost entirely vegetarian and shy, and the reputation for aggression comes from displays that are meant to avoid a fight rather than start one. A silverback is a mature male leading a group. The name comes from a Greek account of a tribe of hairy people in west Africa.
1noungorillaThe largest of the apes.
“The gorilla beat its chest and stared at the visitors through the glass.”
gorilla is an animal.
Greek Gorillai named a tribe of hairy people in a Carthaginian account of west Africa. The name was applied to the ape in 1847.
From Ancient Greek Γόριλλαι (“Gorillai a tribe of hairy women”), described by Hanno the Navigator, a Carthaginian navigator and possible visitor to the area that later became Sierra Leone; the Greek word is likely from xpu -, and ultimately from an African language.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA