noun
gorilla of Kivu highlands
• Syn: ↑Gorilla gorilla beringei
• Hypernyms: ↑gorilla, ↑Gorilla gorilla
• Member Holonyms: ↑genus Gorilla
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noun : a dark hairy gorilla of the mountain forests of the eastern Congo distinguished from the coast gorilla by a narrower skull and longer palate and separated as a subspecies (Gorilla gorilla beringeri) or sometimes as a full species (G. beringeri)
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mountain gorilla,
a gorilla of the mountain forests of the Congo and western Uganda, in central Africa. It is larger and has longer and thicker hair than other gorillas.
Useful english dictionary. 2012.