ORANGUTAN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does orangutan mean? 

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

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

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• ORANGUTAN (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 ("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)

 Context examples 

But its production has been linked to large-scale destruction of pristine forests and the decimation of orangutan populations.

(Greener palm oil possible without sacrificing profit, SciDev.Net)

A taxonomic family that was originally restricted to humans and their extinct relatives, but now also includes the gorilla, orangutan, chimpanzee and bonobo.

(Hominidae, NCI Thesaurus)