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Definition of Ourangs
1. ourang [n] - See also: ourang
Lexicographical Neighbors of Ourangs
Literary usage of Ourangs
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Animal Kingdom: Arranged in Conformity with Its Organization by Georges Cuvier (1832)
"The arms of the remaining ourangs reach only to the knee. ... The Gibbons have
the long arms of the true ourangs, and the low forehead of the ..."
2. The Metropolitan (1831)
"Still the ourangs were suffered to proceed as usual. ... The ourangs consulted
together—they shuffled and snuffled, and twisted and turned, and chattered, ..."
3. The Canadian Magazine of Politics, Science, Art, and Literature edited by J. Gordon Mowat, John Alexander Cooper, Newton MacTavish (1894)
"It has been remarked that the Our- angs of Africa are black, and so are the people.
The ourangs of India are chocolate colored, and so, too, are the people. ..."
4. Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon by Robert Armitage Sterndale (1884)
"CELL'S HYLOBATES—THE GIBBONS, Which, with the long arms of the ourangs and the
receding forehead of the Chimpanzee, possess the callosities of the true ..."
5. The Analyst: A Quarterly Journal of Science, Literature, Natural History by William Holl, Neville Wood, Edward Mammatt (1840)
"... we deem the genus Homo to be of equal systematic value with the three other
genera or sub-genera (of the Chimpanzee, ourangs, and Gibbons) collectively. ..."
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