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orangotang

orangotang 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 orangotang

pluralorangotangs

Questions about orangotang

What is orangotang the obsolete spelling of?
Orangotang is the obsolete spelling of orangutan.

Words near orangotang in the dictionary

  1. Orangists
  2. orangite
  3. orangites
  4. Orango
  5. orangoid
  6. orangotang
  7. orangotangs
  8. orangoutan
  9. orangoutang
  10. orangoutangs
  11. orangoutans

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Adapted from Wiktionary: orangotang (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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