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ourangoutang

ourangoutang is the archaic 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 ourangoutang

pluralourangoutangs

Questions about ourangoutang

What is ourangoutang the archaic spelling of?
Ourangoutang is the archaic spelling of orangutan.

Words near ourangoutang in the dictionary

  1. ourang outangs
  2. ourang-outan
  3. ourang-outang
  4. ourang-outangs
  5. ourang-outans
  6. ourangoutang
  7. ourangoutangs
  8. ourangs
  9. ouranian
  10. ouranic
  11. ouranography

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Adapted from Wiktionary: ourangoutang (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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