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Pongo
(gcide) | Pongo \Pon"go\, n. (Zool.)
Any large ape; especially, the chimpanzee and the
orang-outang.
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pongo
(wn) | Pongo
n 1: type genus of the family Pongidae: orangutans [syn:
Pongo, genus Pongo] |
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Pongo pygmaeus
(gcide) | Orang-outang \O*rang"-ou*tang`\, Orang-utan \O*rang"-u*tan`\, n.
[Malayan [=o]rang [=u]tan, i. e., man of the woods; [=o]rang
man + [=u]tan a forest, wood, wild, savage.] (Zool.)
An arboreal anthropoid ape (Pongo pygmaeus, formerly {Simia
satyrus}), which inhabits Borneo and Sumatra. Often called
simply orang. It is now an endangered species. [Written
also orangutan, orangutang, orang-utan, ourang-utang,
and oran-utan.]
[1913 Webster +PJC]
Note: It is over four feet high, when full grown, and has
very long arms, which reach nearly or quite to the
ground when the body is erect. Its color is reddish
brown. In structure, it closely resembles man in many
respects.
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Spongoblast
(gcide) | Spongoblast \Spon"go*blast\ (sp[o^][ng]"g[-o]*bl[a^]st), n. [Gr.
spo`ggos sponge + -blast.] (Zool.)
One of the cells which, in sponges, secrete the spongin, or
the material of the horny fibers.
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Spongoid
(gcide) | Spongoid \Spon"goid\ (sp[u^]n"goid or sp[o^][ng]"-; 277), a.
[Gr. spo`ggos sponge + -oid.]
Resembling sponge; like sponge.
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genus pongo
(wn) | genus Pongo
n 1: type genus of the family Pongidae: orangutans [syn:
Pongo, genus Pongo] |
pongo
(wn) | Pongo
n 1: type genus of the family Pongidae: orangutans [syn:
Pongo, genus Pongo] |
pongo pygmaeus
(wn) | Pongo pygmaeus
n 1: large long-armed ape of Borneo and Sumatra having arboreal
habits [syn: orangutan, orang, orangutang, {Pongo
pygmaeus}] |
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