ORANGUTANG

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does orangutang mean? 

• ORANGUTANG (noun)
  The noun ORANGUTANG has 1 sense:

1. large long-armed ape of Borneo and Sumatra having arboreal habits

  Familiarity information: ORANGUTANG used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ORANGUTANG (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

orang; orangutan; orangutang; Pongo pygmaeus

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

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

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

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