Definition of "orang" []

• Informal An orangutan. (noun)

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• "I should object to the appellation orang-outang, and I should resent with emphasis that of baboon."
• "We must not believe, notwithstanding the assertions of almost all zoological writers, that the word orang-otang is applied exclusively in the Malay language to the Simia satyrus of Borneo."
• "We must not believe, notwithstanding the assertions of almost all zoological writers, that the word orang-otang is applied exclusively in the Malay language to the Simia satyrus of"