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n. - Large long-armed ape of Borneo and Sumatra having arboreal habits.

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  • When he left home he was a smooth-faced, good-looking boy, and he sends home the likeness of an ourangoutang with the upper part of his face shaved!
  • Genus Simia, -- baboons and apes, chimpanzees, with their human visage, mockeries of man, from the dwarf monkeys perched on boughs lopped from the mayor's shrubberies, to the...
  • —visions of the horribly slaughtered land-lady—of the suspected assailant, so simian-like in appearance as to resemble a hideous Borneo ourangoutang—and of the grim, and...
  • Bless my eyesaight! you are like a cousin-german of an ourangoutang.”
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