单词 | man of the woods |
释义 | > as lemmasman of the woods d. man of the woods: = orangutan n. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > order Primates > suborder Anthropoidea (higher primates) > [noun] > group Catarrhinae (Old World monkey) > member of superfamily Hominoidea (apes and humans) > family Pongidae (ape) > genus Pongo (orang-outang) satyra1398 orangutan1699 man of the woods1755 pongo1775 orang1778 yahooc1790 wild man1791 mias1840 red orang1840 outang1869 lesser orang-utan1903 1755 Hist. Descr. Tower Lond. 25 You are..shewn in this Yard a Man of the Wood. 1774 O. Goldsmith Hist. Earth IV. 189 The foremost of the Ape kind is the Ourang Outang, or Wild Man of the Woods. 1836 Penny Cycl. V. 188/1 The variety of the ape and monkey tribes is endless [in Borneo]; and among them is the orang-outang, or the ‘man of the woods’, as the name implies. 1852 T. Ross tr. A. von Humboldt Personal Narr. Trav. Amer. II. xx. 270 The hairy man of the woods. < as lemmas |
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