Gorilla

The world gorilla derives from Greek Γόριλλαι (Gorillai) meaning  "tribe of hairy women". 

A translation of a report written by Hanno, Carthaginian navigator,  who voyaged before 480 b.c., and went as far as Sierra Leone in his explorations mention this word. In the Greek translation of his report he tells of seeing Gorillai, the name of which he allegedly learned from local informants and which he thought were members of a tribe of hairy women.

Rather than women it is alleged he probably had an incounter with the great apes. It makes you wonder how greek women looked in those days!