orangutan

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I looked a lot like an orangutan, our close cousins, or the Incredible Hulk -- not very good for ballroom dancing.

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  1. noun An arboreal anthropoid ape (Pongo pygmaeus) of Borneo and Sumatra, having a shaggy reddish-brown coat, very long arms, and no tail.

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  • I looked a lot like an orangutan, our close cousins, or the Incredible Hulk -- not very good for ballroom dancing. —  Tim Ferriss: Smash fear, learn anything
  • Chemistry was a remarkable member of the anthropoid family--chimpanzee, orangutan, ape, stunted gorilla, nobody knew which. —  049 - The Mental Wizard
  • It's also one of the biggest remaining habitats for the critically endangered orangutan, the population of which has been great diminished in recent years due to habitat destruction and poaching. —  Mongabay.com News
  • Whereas a single CHEK2 duplication was detected in orangutan, a multi-site signal pattern indicated a burst of duplication in African great apes and human. —  BioMed Central - Latest articles
  • (On a side note, orangutan is a Malay world; "orang" meaning person and "utan" meaning forest.) —  The Herald-Mail Online
 

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  1. Malay orang hutan : orang, man + hutan, wilderness, jungle.
 

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