Definitions for orangutans

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orangutans o·rang·u·tan

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

You can make 556 anagrams from letters in orangutans (aagnnorstu).

Definitions for orangutans

noun

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

Origin of orangutans

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

Examples for orangutans

Of the great man-like apes (gorilla, orangutan, and chimpanzee).

Sammy the orangutan has watched himself in Dunston Checks In, and he seemed to be interested.

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

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.

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

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