orang-outang

If so, I think one may be better off with an orang-outang, a Tenasserim gibbon or the like.

You think because a chimpanzee knows you, he doesn't hate you? Ann Althouse 2009

There was a poor devil standing upright with his arms raised and his legs apart, clutching at the grille, like an orang-outang.

Maid in Waiting 2004

The resemblance also of the human stomach to that of the orang-outang is greater than to that of any other animal.

The Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley 2003

The orang-outang is the most anthropomorphous of the ape tribe, all of which are strictly frugivorous.

The Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley 2003

The caecum also, though short, is larger than that of carnivorous animals; and even here the orang-outang retains its accustomed similarity.

The Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley 2003

The orang-outang perfectly resembles man both in the order and number of his teeth.

The Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley 2003

With Shelley we are struck from the beginning by the number of things poetry is expected to do; from a poet who tells us, in a note on vegetarianism, that 'the orang-outang perfectly resembles man both in the order and the number of his teeth', we shall not know what to expect.

Henry Salt on Shelley: Literary Criticism and Ecological Identity 2001

For the tenor of that discussion may be further gleaned from Solange's reply to her mother early in November: "Emile is right to claim the orang-outang as his grandfather…."

The Talk of Nohant Winegarten, Renee 1980

Cap. kindly turned barber and redeemed me from the danger of being classed as orang-outang.

A Canyon Voyage The Narrative of the Second Powell Expedition down the Green-Colorado River from Wyoming, and the Explorations on Land, in the Years 1871 and 1872 Frederick S. Dellenbaugh

There are only four principal kinds now existing, namely, the gibbon, orang-outang, chimpanzee, and the gorilla, of which the first is much less familiar than the others.

The Doctrine of Evolution Its Basis and Its Scope Henry Edward Crampton