ORANGUTAN

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Large long-armed ape of Borneo and Sumatra having arboreal habits

Synonyms:

orang; orangutan; orangutang; Pongo pygmaeus

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Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("orangutan" is a kind of...):

great ape; pongid (any of the large anthropoid apes of the family Pongidae)

Holonyms ("orangutan" is a member of...):

genus Pongo; Pongo (type genus of the family Pongidae: orangutans)

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