| gibbon | (noun) smallest and most perfectly anthropoid arboreal ape having long arms and no tail; of southern Asia and East Indies | Synonyms: Hylobates lar |
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| ribbon | (noun) notion consisting of a narrow strip of fine material used for trimming | - |
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| (noun) a long strip of inked material for making characters on paper with a typewriter | Synonyms: typewriter ribbon |
| (noun) an award for winning a championship or commemorating some other event | Synonyms: decoration, laurel wreath, medal, medallion, palm |
| (noun) any long object resembling a thin line | Synonyms: thread |
| ribbonfish | (noun) marine fish having a long compressed ribbonlike body | - |
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| (noun) thin deep-water tropical fish 20 to 30 feet long having a red dorsal fin | Synonyms: king of the herring, oarfish, Regalecus glesne |
| ribbonwood | (noun) small tree or shrub of New Zealand having a profusion of axillary clusters of honey-scented paper-white flowers and whose bark is used for cordage | Synonyms: Hoheria populnea, houhere, lacebark |
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| (noun) deciduous New Zealand tree whose inner bark yields a strong fiber that resembles flax and is called New Zealand cotton | Synonyms: Plagianthus betulinus, Plagianthus regius, ribbon tree |