Definitions for orangutan

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orangutan o·rang·u·tan

Spelling: [aw-rang-oo-tan, oh-rang-, uh- Orangutan is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 277 anagrams from letters in orangutan (aagnnortu).

Definitions for orangutan

noun

1. a large, long-armed anthropoid ape, Pongo pygmaeus, of arboreal habits, inhabiting Borneo and Sumatra: an endangered species.

Origin of orangutan

1690-1700; New Latin, Dutch orang outang, apparently Malay: literally, forest man (Malay orang man, person + (h)utan forest

Examples for orangutan

The exhibit was intended as an example of the "missing link" between the orangutan and white man.

He leaped from left to right, and back again, like an orangutan stirred to frenzied anger.

But it is unlikely to make that transition itself, anymore than you could turn yourself into your neighbor, or an orangutan.

Some dude slaps an orangutan around a little,” says Rick, “and they ask for $800,000,000.

There was an orangutan sanctuary there, and I heard that they were taking volunteers.

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).