miasn.
/ˈmʌɪəs/, U.S. /ˈmaɪəs/ The orang-utan, Pongo pygmaeus.
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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
1840 J. Brooke Jrnl. in R. Mundy Narr. in Borneo & Celebes (1848) I. 220 While lazily waiting the report of our Dyaks who were detached in search of the mias, we fell in with a party of Balows.
1840 J. Brooke Jrnl. in R. Mundy Narr. in Borneo & Celebes (1848) I. 226 The mias, both pappan and rembi..have nests or houses in the trees.
1866 C. Brooke Ten Years Saráwak I. 63 The Maias, or Orang-utan,..is very common in some parts [of Sarawak].
1869 A. R. Wallace Malay Archipel. I. iv. 62 Just a week after my arrival at the mines, I first saw a Mias.
1917 Nature 22 Mar. 64/2 Considerable space is devoted to the orang-outang, or, as the author prefers to call it, the ‘Maias’, this being its correct Malay name.
1942 C. Barrett On Wallaby ix. 185 The mias or wild man of the woods, as the Malays call the orang-utan.
1989 P. O'Brian Thirteen-gun Salute vi. 191 To see a mias, for I believe that is the true Malay, you must go to Kumai.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2001; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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