mountain gorilla

noun

: a gorilla (Gorilla beringei beringei) inhabiting the Virunga mountain range

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In many countries, the government finds that people will pay to go and see, for example, mountain gorillas in Rwanda. Amiee White Beazley, Travel + Leisure, 1 Oct. 2025 Fossey dedicated herself to studying mountain gorillas in their Congo homeland, and lost her life in their cause: in 1985 she was murdered in her cabin in Rwanda while working to protect the gorillas from poachers. Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 1 Oct. 2025 Smit and Robbins analyzed behavioral data recorded over 25 years of close observation of four different mountain gorilla troops. Rj MacKenzie, Popular Science, 28 Aug. 2025 That’s like, almost as big as a mountain gorilla, male to female. Quanta Magazine, 21 Aug. 2025 See All Example Sentences for mountain gorilla

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First Known Use

1922, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of mountain gorilla was in 1922

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“Mountain gorilla.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/mountain%20gorilla. Accessed 18 Oct. 2025.

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