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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) to the Malay words orang, meaning "person", and hutan, meaning "forest"...
- 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...
- sapiens: Homo troglodytes ("cave-dwelling man"). Although the term "Orang Outang" is listed as a variety – Homo sylvestrisunder this species, it is nevertheless...
- 5935/1678-9741.20150024. PMC 4462973. PMID 26107459. Edward Tyson, Orang-Outang..., 1699, p. 59. Caldwell R (2006). "Comparative Anatomy: Andreas Vesalius"...
- 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,...
- the Brain of the Negro, Compared with That of the European and the Orang-Outang". Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. 126: 497–527...
- an unusual tuft of hair from the scene, Dupin concludes that an "Ourang-Outang" (orangutan) killed the women. He places an adverti****t in the newspaper...
- in the world" When Brains Are Needed (1915), Big U, "...when the orang-outang escapes..." The Black Box (1915), 15-episode serial directed by Otis Turner...