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orangoutan

orangoutan 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 orangoutan

pluralorangoutans

Questions about orangoutan

What is orangoutan the obsolete spelling of?
Orangoutan is the obsolete spelling of orangutan.

Words near orangoutan in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: orangoutan (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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