| 单词 | wild man of the woods |
| 释义 | > as lemmaswild man of the woods 2. (wild adj. 1) A name for the orang-outang: also wild man of the woods (see wood 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 1769 E. Bancroft Ess. Nat. Hist. Guiana 131 These animals [sc. Orang-Outang], in all the different languages of the natives, are called by names signifying a Wild Man.] 1791 W. Smellie tr. Comte de Buffon Nat. Hist. Gen. & Particular (ed. 3) VIII. 97 As there is a greater similarity between this animal and man than between those creatures which resemble him most, as the Barbary ape [etc.], the Indians are to be excused for associating him with the human species, under the denomination of orang-outang, or wild man. 1881 J. Hatton New Ceylon iii. 72 The Bornean ‘wild man’ is quite harmless. < as lemmas |
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