单词 | orang |
释义 | orangn. = orangutan n. 1. 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 1778 P. Camper in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 69 145 I had an opportunity of seeing seven Orangs. 1840 Penny Cycl. XVI. 467/1 The student will do well to study carefully the whole of the Professor's valuable remarks and beautifully accurate illustrations relating to the Orangs, or great tailless Apes of Asia and Africa. 1854 R. Owen Struct. Skeleton & Teeth in Orr's Circle Sci.: Org. Nature I. 299 Both chimpanzees and orangs differ from the human subject in the order of the development of the permanent series of teeth. 1882 H. de Windt On Equator 106 Our last attempt at orang shooting. 1939 Nature 23 Dec. 1055/2 In some peculiarities of the teeth he [sc. Sinanthropus] approaches the gorilla..and..the female orang in ‘taurodontism’. 1972 D. Bloodworth Any Number can Play xii. 103 A young orang..tried poking it [sc. a hole in a log] with a twig that was too thick, then whittled down the twig. 1993 Harper's Mag. Nov. 59/1 Some of the threats had detailed plans to poison the orangs' food. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1778 |
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