Usually means: Large, reddish-brown, arboreal ape.
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General (18 matching dictionaries)
  1. orangutan: Merriam-Webster
  2. orangutan: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. orangutan: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. orangutan: Vocabulary.com
  5. Orangutan, orangutan: Wordnik
  6. orangutan: Wiktionary
  7. orangutan: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  8. orangutan (orangoutang): The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  9. orangutan: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. orangutan: Dictionary.com
  11. orangutan: Online Etymology Dictionary
  12. orangutan: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  13. Orangutan (disambiguation), Orangutan: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. orangutan: Rhymezone
  15. orangutan: FreeDictionary.org
  16. orangutan: Mnemonic Dictionary
  17. orangutan: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. orangutan: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. orangutan: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. orangutan: Wordcraft Dictionary

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Anthropology dictionary (No longer online)

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. orangutan: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Orangutan: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See orangutaning as well.)

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▸ noun:  Any of three species of arboreal anthropoid ape, characterised by their shaggy reddish-brown coat and long arms, which comprise the genus Pongo; Pongo pygmaeus of Borneo, Pongo abelii of Sumatra or Pongo tapanuliensis of South Tapanuli (in Sumatra).

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orangutang, orang, pongo pygmaeus, orang-utan, orang-otan, orang-hutan, orangoutan, orang-otang, orang-utang, orang-outang, more...

Types:
Borneorangutan, Sumatrorangutan, Tapanuli orangutan, more...

Phrases:
Bornean orangutan, Tapanuli orangutan, Sumatran orangutan, Borneo Orangutan Survival, more...

Adjectives:
male, young, female, sumatran, old, modern, adult, wild, bornean, enculturated, rehabilitant

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orangutang, orang, pongo pygmaeus, orang-utan, orang-otan, orang-hutan, orangoutan, orang-otang, orang-utang, orang-outang, more...

Types:
Borneorangutan, Sumatrorangutan, Tapanuli orangutan, more...

Phrases:
Bornean orangutan, Tapanuli orangutan, Sumatran orangutan, Borneo Orangutan Survival, more...

Adjectives:
male, young, female, sumatran, old, modern, adult, wild, bornean, enculturated, rehabilitant

Colors:
    burnt orange,     rust,     copper,     amber,     sienna, more...



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