单词 | red orang |
释义 | > as lemmasred orang red orang n. now rare an orangutan (genus Pongo); spec. the Sumatran orangutan, P. abelii, which has bright reddish fur. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > order Primates > suborder Anthropoidea (higher primates) > [noun] > group Catarrhinae (Old World monkey) > member of superfamily Hominoidea (apes and humans) > family Pongidae (ape) > genus Pongo (orang-outang) satyra1398 orangutan1699 man of the woods1755 pongo1775 orang1778 yahooc1790 wild man1791 mias1840 red orang1840 outang1869 lesser orang-utan1903 1840 E. Blyth et al. Cuvier's Animal Kingdom 55 The Pongo..is known only to occur in Borneo where the Red Ourang has not been ascertained to exist. 1857 L. Agassiz & A. A. Gould Princ. Zöol. (rev. ed.) i. 207 The tropical fauna of Asia, comprising the two peninsulas of India and the Isles of Sunda, is not less marked. It is the country of the gibbons, the red orang, the royal tiger, [etc.]. 1905 Science 7 July 13/2 The ‘crinibus nigris’ of his description is the one character to distinguish it from the red orang. < as lemmas |
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