| 词汇 | orangutan |
| 词源 | orangutan. One story claims that this ape native to Borneo looked so much like a man to the natives there that they named it from the Malay orang, man, and hutan, forest or jungle. On the other hand, it may be that Europeans mistakenly applied the Malay word for wild man, orangutan, to the ape, the word actually describing a tribe of the Sundra Islands. |
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