gorilla vs pongid

gorilla and pongid both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
gorilla	Yes	No	No	No
pongid	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, pongid is a hypernym of gorilla; that is, pongid is a word with a broader meaning than gorilla:

gorilla: largest anthropoid ape; terrestrial and vegetarian; of forests of central west Africa
pongid: any of the large anthropoid apes of the family Pongidae

Other hypernyms of gorilla include great ape.

gorilla (noun)	pongid (noun)
largest anthropoid ape; terrestrial and vegetarian; of forests of central west Africa	any of the large anthropoid apes of the family Pongidae