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orangutan

/aw-rang-oo-tan, oh-rang-, uh-rang-/US // ɔˈræŋ ʊˌtæn, oʊˈræŋ-, əˈræŋ- //UK // (ɔːˌræŋuːˈtæn, ˌɔːræŋˈuːtæn) //

猩猩,人猿,红毛猩猩

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n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : either of two species of long-armed, arboreal great ape, the only extant members of the subfamily Ponginae, inhabiting Borneo and Sumatra: both species, including all three of the Bornean subspecies, are endangered.

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Examples

  • In the early 1990s, Kinari Webb took a year off college to join a Harvard researcher studying orangutans in Indonesia’s rainforested Gunung Palung National Park.

  • Some dude slaps an orangutan around a little,” says Rick, “and they ask for $800,000,000.

  • But it is unlikely to make that transition itself, anymore than you could turn yourself into your neighbor, or an orangutan.

  • There was an orangutan sanctuary there, and I heard that they were taking volunteers.

  • The exhibit was intended as an example of the "missing link" between the orangutan and white man.

  • Sammy the orangutan has watched himself in Dunston Checks In, and he seemed to be interested.

  • Of the great man-like apes (gorilla, orangutan, and chimpanzee).

  • He leaped from left to right, and back again, like an orangutan stirred to frenzied anger.

  • Exactly a week after I had caught this interesting little animal, I succeeded in shooting a full-grown male Orangutan.

  • He looks as much like a Borneo Orangutan as any human being I ever saw.