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uran-utan

uran-utan 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 uran-utan

pluraluran-utans

Questions about uran-utan

What is uran-utan the obsolete spelling of?
Uran-utan is the obsolete spelling of orangutan.

Words near uran-utan in the dictionary

  1. Urams
  2. uramustine
  3. Uran
  4. uran-
  5. uran-ochre
  6. uran-utan
  7. uran-utans
  8. Urana
  9. uranalysis
  10. uranate
  11. uranates

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Adapted from Wiktionary: uran-utan (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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