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oran-outang

oran-outang 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-outang

pluraloran-outangs

Questions about oran-outang

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

Words near oran-outang in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: oran-outang (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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