chuman

English

Etymology

Blend of chimpanzee or chimp + human.

Noun

chuman (plural chumans)

1. A hypothetical hybrid of a male chimpanzee and a female human.

   Synonym: chimphuman

   Coordinate terms: humanzee, manpanzee

   • 2016, Itai Yanai, Lercher Martin, The Society of Genes, Harvard University Press, →ISBN, page 151:

     The chuman had been sheer fantasy. Oliver was an unusual chimp, yet a chimp just the same. But what really stands in the way of a chuman? Did chumans ever exist?

Anagrams

• Manchu, chunam, maunch