western gorilla
[ wes-tern guh-ril-uh ]
noun
a blackish or dark gray gorilla (Gorilla gorilla), often with a distinctive reddish brown forehead: its two subspecies, the western lowland gorilla and the rare Cross River gorilla, are both critically endangered.
Origin of western gorilla
1First recorded in 1920–25
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