orangutan
noun/əˈræŋətæn/
/əˈræŋətæn/
- a large ape (= an animal like a large monkey with no tail) with long arms and red-brown hair, that lives in Borneo and SumatraTopics Animalsc2Word OriginFrom Malay orang utan/hutan, meaning ‘person of the forest’.
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