Definition of "orang-utans" []

• Plural form of orang-utan. (noun)

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• "Environmentalists regard unsustainable palm oil production as a danger not only for orang-utans, elephants, tigers and rhinos in Asia, but also to the climate of the planet as enormous amounts of carbon dioxide are released when forests or peat lands are destroyed."
• "Morphologically they seem to fall between Sivapithecus and modern orang-utans."
• "All of the above, including modern orang-utans, seem to have descended from a genus of ancient apes known as Sivapithecus."