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9 letters · 10 points in Scrabble
Meaning
noun large long-armed ape of Borneo and Sumatra having arboreal habits
originProbably via Dutch orang-oetan, orang-oetang, apparently from Malay orang hutan, orang utan (literally “forest man”), from orang (“person, man”) + hutan (“forest”), although as a term for the animal it is attested only recently (earlier and preferred terms being mawas and mayas). As there is originally no evidence for its usage, except occasionally literally, it must be assumed to have been…
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0
Words from these letters
- argonaut 9
- outrang 8
- angora 7
- goanna 7
- nougat 7
- organa 7
- ourang 7
- ragout 7
- taguan 7
- tangun 7
- anuran 6
- natron 6