Washoe

[ wosh-oh, waw-shoh ]

/ ˈwɒʃ oʊ, ˈwɔ ʃoʊ /

b. 1965, female chimpanzee, first ape trained to communicate with humans by means of a sign language.

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Examples from the Web for washoe

Neither the gold reaches of Colorado nor the silver-bearing "leads" of the Washoe district had as yet been discovered.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 122, December, 1867|Various
He soared over three fences like a bird, and disappeared down the road toward the Washoe Valley.
Roughing It|Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens)
He may be lurking in some of the mining-camps near the foot-hills, as he was a Washoe teamster during the Comstock excitement.
Caxton's Book: A Collection of Essays, Poems, Tales, and Sketches.|W. H. Rhodes
That the Rothschilds are at present a little wary of any investment in Washoe is quite natural.
Crusoe's Island: A Ramble in the Footsteps of Alexander Selkirk|John Ross Browne

A shave is half a dollar—gold; in Washoe and in Atchison, but a paper quarter.
Greater Britain|Charles Wentworth Dilke