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- noun Alternative spelling of
orangutan .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Whether this was a chimpanzee, an orangoutang, or a gorilla, he took rank among the anthropoid apes, who are so called from their resemblance to the human race.
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However, Herbert declared it to be an orangoutang.
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Whether this was a chimpanzee, an orangoutang, or a gorilla, he took rank among the anthropoid apes, who are so called from their resemblance to the human race.
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It was an orangoutang, and as such, had neither the ferocity of the gorilla, nor the stupidity of the baboon.
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It was an orangoutang, and as such, had neither the ferocity of the gorilla, nor the stupidity of the baboon.
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However, Herbert declared it to be an orangoutang.
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According to Cuvier, the great French naturalist, the natural diet of human beings, like that of those other primates, the orangoutang, the chimpanzee, and the gorilla, consists of fruits, nuts, tender shoots and cereals.
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There is his _ergon_, his 'differential energy,' as the Aristotelians say, -- his true distinction from the orangoutang.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 34, August, 1860 Various
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Music inspires every gradation of humanity, from the orangoutang and the cane-sucking dude with the single eye glass, _up to man_.
Gov. Bob. Taylor's Tales Robert L. Taylor
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At first they scarcely knew what to call them; they so much resembled the orangoutang
From log cabin to the pulpit, or, fifteen years in slavery, b. 1848 1913
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