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Definition of Orang

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

Definition of Orang

1. n. See Orang-outang.

Definition of Orang

1. Noun. An orangutan. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Orang

1. a large ape [n -S]

Medical Definition of Orang

1. An arboreal anthropoid ape (Simia satyrus), which inhabits Borneo and Sumatra. Often called simply orang. Alternative forms: orang-outan, orang-utan, ourang-utang, and oran-utan. It is over four feet high, when full grown, and has very long arms, which reach nearly or quite to the ground when the body is erect. Its colour is reddish brown. In structure, it closely resembles man in many respects. Origin: Malayan rang tan, i. E, man of the woods; rang man + tan a forest, wood, wild, savage. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Orang

Literary usage of Orang

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Pagan Races of the Malay Peninsula by Walter William Skeat, Charles Otto Blagden (1906)
"See also Sea-Jakun orang Liar, the name, i. 81 orang Muka Kuning, i. 88 orang Pago, i. 71. See also Pago orang Paya, the name, i. ..."

2. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society Held at Philadelphia for by American Philosophical Society (1916)
"OBSERVATIONS ON THE MENTALITY OF CHIMPANZEES AND orang-UTANS. ... My first orang-utan I obtained in February, 1909, in South Borneo, when it was, ..."

3. The Polar and Tropical Worlds: A Description of Man and Nature in the Polar by Georg Hartwig (1872)
"... her Young—The orang-Utan, or Mias—Wallace's Accounts of Shooting the orang—Their Tenacity of Life—Size of the orang—The orang as a Combatant—The orang ..."

4. Report of the Annual Meeting (1866)
"On the External Fonn of the Hand and Brain of the orang (8. satyrus). ... The injected brain of an orang and the hand of im animal of the same species, ..."

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