What does pongo pygmaeus mean?

pongo pygmaeus means "large long-armed ape of Borneo and Sumatra having arboreal habits".

What is another word for pongo pygmaeus?

Close synonyms include orangutan, orang, orangutang. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is pongo pygmaeus a common word?

pongo pygmaeus is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

pongo pygmaeus — meaning, pronunciation and definition

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1.
large long-armed ape of Borneo and Sumatra having arboreal habits
Synonymsorangutan orang orangutang
Broadergreat ape
Part ofPongo

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