different between gorilla vs cantaloupe

English

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ???????? (Górillai, “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.

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /?????l.?/
• Rhymes: -?l?
• Homophone: guerrilla

Noun

gorilla (plural gorillas)

1. The largest of the apes, native to the forests of central Africa, and known for their trait of knuckle-walking.
2. A big and brutish man or a thug; a goon or ruffian.
3. (informal) A powerful person or organization; a heavyweight or behemoth.
   • 1977, Computerworld (volume 11, number 19, page 58)

     The two industry gorillas — IBM and AT&T — will get together to decide who will provide different communications services, Biddle stated.

Derived terms

Related terms

• Godzilla
• Gorillai

Translations

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from translingual Gorilla.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??o??r?.la?/
• Hyphenation: go?ril?la
• Rhymes: -?la?

Noun

gorilla m (plural gorilla's, diminutive gorillaatje n)

1. gorilla, primate of the genus Gorilla

Derived terms

• berggorilla
• laaglandgorilla

Finnish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??oril??/, [??o?ril??]
• Rhymes: -oril??
• Syllabification: go?ril?la

Noun

gorilla

1. gorilla

Declension

Compounds

• vuorigorilla

Hungarian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [??oril??]
• Hyphenation: go?ril?la
• Rhymes: -l?

Noun

gorilla (plural gorillák)

1. gorilla

Declension

Italian

Noun

gorilla m (invariable)

1. gorilla

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ???????? (Górillai, “a tribe of hairy women”)

Noun

gorilla m (definite singular gorillaen, indefinite plural gorillaer, definite plural gorillaene)

1. a gorilla

References

• “gorilla” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ???????? (Górillai, “a tribe of hairy women”)

Noun

gorilla m (definite singular gorillaen, indefinite plural gorillaer or gorillaar, definite plural gorillaene or gorillaane)

1. a gorilla

References

• “gorilla” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Swedish

Noun

gorilla c

1. gorilla

Declension

West Frisian

Etymology

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Noun

gorilla c (plural gorilla's)

1. gorilla

English

Alternative forms

• cantaloup, cantalope

Etymology

From French cantaloup, from Italian Cantalupo (a place name), after a former Papal summer estate near Rome, where the melons were first grown after being introduced to Europe.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?kæn.t?.lu?p/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?kæn.t?.lo?p/

Noun

cantaloupe (plural cantaloupes)

1. A melon of species Cucumis melo subsp. melo with sweet orange flesh, with numerous cultivars in several cultivar groups.
   1. (Britain, Ireland) Smooth-skinned, also known as true cantaloupe, found in the Middle East and also grown in Europe. [From 1739.]
   2. (Australia, US) Having a rough skin resembling netting; also known as muskmelon or rockmelon.
2. An orange colour, like that of cantaloupe flesh.

Translations

Further reading

• cantaloupe on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

References

Finnish

Noun

cantaloupe

1. Synonym of verkkomeloni (“cantaloupe”).

Declension