What does "pongid" mean?

Any primate once considered to belong in the family Pongidae; the great apes excluding humans

Pongid

Common synonyms include: great ape, ape-like, archaic designation, nonhuman ape, nonhuman primate, obsolete term.

noun

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Noun

1
Any primate once considered to belong in the family Pongidae; the great apes excluding humans obsolete
2
any of the large anthropoid apes of the family Pongidae wordnet