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Orang-outang
Orang-outang O*rang"-ou*tang`, n. [Malayan ?rang ?tan, i. e., man of the woods; ?rang man + ?tan a forest, wood, wild, savage.] (Zo["o]l.) An arboreal anthropoid ape (Simia satyrus), which inhabits Borneo and Sumatra. Often called simply orang. [Written also orang-outan, orang-utan, ourang-utang, and oran-utan.] Note: It is over four feet high, when full grown, and has very long arms, which reach nearly or quite to the ground when the body is erect. Its color is reddish brown. In structure, it closely resembles man in many respects.
Ourang-outang
Ourang-outang Ou*rang"-ou*tang`, n. (Zo["o]l.) See Orang-outang.

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- "Hop-Frog" (originally "Hop-Frog; Or, the Eight Chained Ourang-Outangs") is a short story by American writer Edgar Allan Poe, first published in 1849...
- Orang-Outang, sive Homo Sylvestris: or, the Anatomy of a Pygmie Compared with that of a Monkey, an Ape, and a Man (1699) is a book by the British natural...
- "orangutan" (also written orang-utan, orang utan, orangutang, and ourang-outang) is derived from the Malay words orang, meaning "person", and hutan, meaning...
- 5935/1678-9741.20150024. PMC 4462973. PMID 26107459. Edward Tyson, Orang-Outang..., 1699, p. 59. Caldwell R (2006). "Comparative Anatomy: Andreas Vesalius"...
- ruine et la vie. Galilée. 2009. Double Oubli de l'Orang-Outang [Double Oblivion of the Ourang-Outang]. Translated by Garnier, Lucy; Dow, Suzanne. Galilée...
- sapiens: Homo troglodytes ("cave-dwelling man"). Although the term "Orang Outang" is listed as a variety – Homo sylvestrisunder this species, it is nevertheless...
- and Brian Tench, and production on "Go Wild in the Country" and "Orang-Outang" solely to Tench Notes Credited on 1981 UK issue; uncredited elsewhere Credited...
- monkey dressed up like a man, to be more exact, a 5 ft 5 in (1.65 m) orang-outang with a human brain. Inspector Cookson of the Los Angeles office of the postal...
- from the great world and the greatest have, like the sub-man, the orang-outang, lived out and died out in their twenty-fifth year, — for which reason,...
- some significant events. English physician Edward Tyson publishes Orang-Outang, sive Homo Sylvestris: or, the Anatomy of a Pygmie Compared with that of...