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Meanings of orangutan in English
Portuguese
orangotango Catalan
orangutan 
Genus of ape found in rainforests on the Southeast Asian islands of Sumatra and Borneo.
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Examples for "pongo"
Examples for "pongo"
1
On reaching the pongo, the doctor directed his men to remain where they were while he accompanied me to the camp.
2
From there to the Picha, the Camisea, and the Pongo de Mainique.
3
Indeed, I know little about the Pongo, whom I scarcely ever see.
4
I doubt the boat will make it through the Pongo de Manseriche rapids.
5
The Pongo de Manseriche was first discovered by the Adelantado Joan de Salinas.
1
To his delight a young orang-utan came over to check him out.
2
The orang-utan is only half the fighter that the chimpanzee is.
3
The baby orang-utan either whines or shrieks like a human child.
4
I'd seen a Clint Eastwood film once with an orang-utan.
5
I spent days perfecting my first attempt at an orang-utan.
Usage of orangutan in English
1
Name three other well-known works of Western literature that feature orangutan valets.
2
The image shows a critically endangered Bornean orangutan in the Indonesian rainforest.
3
They showed that the ape looked like an orangutan, not a human.
4
You stay with him when your mother says he's an overfed orangutan.
5
The orangutan lies flat on her back, arms and legs spread out.
6
His project aims to save a forest that borders an orangutan protection zone.
7
It takes years for a young orangutan to become an accomplished nest builder.
8
Everyone was heartbroken, but the orangutan's favorite trainer was particularly inconsolable.
9
As the bushes parted, a broad-shouldered male orangutan strutted to the feeding platform.
10
Of all Borneo's wild inhabitants, none have the totemic status of the orangutan.
11
Had she spotted the orangutan in a mail-order catalog, insisted it be hers?
12
A stuffed orangutan hung over the footboard, eyes glassy and blank.
13
Dumai, the 26-year old orangutan who lived at the Johannesburg Zoo, has died.
14
This loss of rainforest displaces animals such as the orangutan and causes air pollution.
15
Freund and her colleagues have also estimated the scale of the illegal orangutan trade.
16
Freund's study of orangutan-based wildlife crime should make it harder to ignore the problem.
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