Home › Words › B › bonobobonobo/bəˈnəʊ̯ˌbəʊ̯/bonobo · noun — A great ape, Pan paniscus, from Africa south of the Congo river.Definition from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).bonobo is pronounced /bəˈnəʊ̯ˌbəʊ̯/.EtymologyFrom Bolobo, a village on the Congo River where Europeans first made contact with the species. Bolobo is possibly imitative of the bubbling of the rapids at that section of the Congo.nounA great ape, Pan paniscus, from Africa south of the Congo river.Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).Words closest in meaningBy meaning, not spelling — each word's AI semantic fingerprint, nearest first.chimpanzee 66% match — Pan troglodytes, a species of great ape native to the savannas and forests of Africa, and believed by biologists to be the closest extant relative to humans along with the bonobo. vs bonobo →guenon 64% match — A member of the genus Cercopithecus of Old World monkeys, of sub-Saharan Africa, principally forests. vs bonobo →soko 63% match — A species of African ape, supposedly a variety of the chimpanzee. vs bonobo →siamang 61% match — A large black gibbon, Symphalangus syndactylus, from Sumatra. vs bonobo →semnopitheque 60% match — A semnopithecine monkey. vs bonobo →simiid 59% match — A member of the Simiidae; a monkey or ape excluding lemurs and humans. vs bonobo →panine 59% match — A mammal of the genus Pan. vs bonobo →douc 58% match — A colobine Old World monkey, making up the genus Pygathrix. vs bonobo →