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oran-otan

oran-otan is the obsolete spelling of orangutan.

Meaning of orangutan

Noun

orangutan (plural orangutans)

  1. An arboreal ape, characterised by its shaggy reddish-brown coat and long arms, of the genus Pongo, native to Borneo and Sumatra.

Forms of oran-otan

pluraloran-otans

Questions about oran-otan

What is oran-otan the obsolete spelling of?
Oran-otan is the obsolete spelling of orangutan.

Words near oran-otan in the dictionary

  1. Oramas
  2. Oramases
  3. Orams
  4. Oran
  5. Oran Park
  6. oran-otan
  7. oran-otans
  8. oran-outang
  9. oran-outangs
  10. Oranbo
  11. orancaya

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Adapted from Wiktionary: oran-otan (page history and authors); orangutan (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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