HyperDic: pongo_pygmaeus

English > 1 sense of the expression Pongo pygmaeus:
NOUNanimalPongo pygmaeus, orangutan, orang, orangutanglarge long-armed ape of Borneo and Sumatra having arboreal habits
English > Pongo pygmaeus: 1 sense > noun 1, animal
Meaninglarge long-armed ape of Borneo and Sumatra having arboreal habits.
Synonymsorangutan, orang, orangutang
Member ofPongo, genus Pongotype genus of the family Pongidae
Broadergreat ape, pongidAny of the large anthropoid apes of the family Pongidae
Spanishorangután, pongo
Catalanorangutan, Pongo pygmaeus

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