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All orangutan synonyms

o·rang·u·tan
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noun orangutan

  • primate — Ecclesiastical. an archbishop or bishop ranking first among the bishops of a province or country.
  • ape — Apes are chimpanzees, gorillas, and other animals in the same family.
  • baboon — A baboon is a large monkey that lives in Africa.
  • chimpanzee — A chimpanzee is a kind of small African ape.
  • gorilla — the largest of the anthropoid apes, Gorilla gorilla, terrestrial and vegetarian, of western equatorial Africa and the Kivu highlands, comprising the subspecies G. g. gorilla (western lowland gorilla) G. g. graueri (eastern lowland gorilla) and G. g. beringei (mountain gorilla) now rare.
  • lemur — any of various small, arboreal, chiefly nocturnal mammals of the family Lemuridae, of Madagascar and the Comoro Islands, especially of the genus Lemur, usually having large eyes, a foxlike face, and woolly fur: most lemurs are endangered.
  • anthropoid — resembling man
  • imp — a little devil or demon; an evil spirit.
  • monk — (James) Arthur ("Art") born 1957, U.S. football player.
  • rascal — a base, dishonest, or unscrupulous person.
  • scamp — an unscrupulous and often mischievous person; rascal; rogue; scalawag.
  • simian — of or relating to an ape or monkey.
  • monkey — any mammal of the order Primates, including the guenons, macaques, langurs, and capuchins, but excluding humans, the anthropoid apes, and, usually, the tarsier and prosimians. Compare New World monkey, Old World monkey.
  • human — of, pertaining to, characteristic of, or having the nature of people: human frailty.
  • mammal — any vertebrate of the class Mammalia, having the body more or less covered with hair, nourishing the young with milk from the mammary glands, and, with the exception of the egg-laying monotremes, giving birth to live young.
  • man — Unix manual page
  • gibbonEdward, 1737–94, English historian.
  • hominoid — Anthropology. a member of the biological superfamily Hominoidea, including all modern great apes and humans and a number of their extinct ancestors and relatives.
  • brachiator — any primate which swings by its arms from one hold to the next
  • cercopithecoid — of, relating to, or belonging to the primate superfamily Cercopithecoidea (Old World monkeys)
  • great ape — any of a group of anthropoid primates characterized by long arms, a broad chest, and the absence of a tail, comprising the family Pongidae (great ape) which includes the chimpanzee, gorilla, and orangutan, and the family Hylobatidae (lesser ape) which includes the gibbon and siamang.
  • humanoid — having human characteristics or form; resembling human beings.
  • orang — orangutan.
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