Definition of "orangutans" []

• Plural form of orangutan. (noun)

Wiktionary.org : Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License

• "I love that guy, he really believed that what he called orangutans and we would call chimpanzees were human--homo sylvestris and also with my increasingly strong desire to write a novel in the Cat People vein."
• "Madison Vorva and Rhiannon Tomtishen did a research project on orangutans that was part of their Bronze Award project and “discovered the habitat of orangutans is being threatened by conversion of the land to the production of palm oil, an ingredient in Girl Scout Cookies.”"
• "I am not alone in this regard; in the case highlighted here, a full 70% of the villagers questioned knew the orangutans were a protected or endangered species when they killed them."