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orangutan
[ aw-rang-oo-tan, oh-rang-, uh-rang- ]
noun
- either of two species of long-armed, arboreal great ape, the only extant members of the subfamily Ponginae, inhabiting Borneo ( Pongo pygmaeus ) and Sumatra ( P. abelii ): both species, including all three of the Bornean subspecies, are endangered.
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Word History and Origins
Origin of orangutan1
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Example Sentences
Some dude slaps an orangutan around a little,” says Rick, “and they ask for $800,000,000.
But it is unlikely to make that transition itself, anymore than you could turn yourself into your neighbor, or an orangutan.
There was an orangutan sanctuary there, and I heard that they were taking volunteers.
The exhibit was intended as an example of the "missing link" between the orangutan and white man.
Sammy the orangutan has watched himself in Dunston Checks In, and he seemed to be interested.
Of the great man-like apes (gorilla, orangutan, and chimpanzee).
He leaped from left to right, and back again, like an orangutan stirred to frenzied anger.
Exactly a week after I had caught this interesting little animal, I succeeded in shooting a full-grown male Orangutan.
He looks as much like a Borneo Orangutan as any human being I ever saw.
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