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Webster 1913 Edition
Pongo
Pon′go
,Noun.
(Zool.)
Any large ape; especially, the chimpanzee and the orang-outang.
Webster 1828 Edition
Pongo
PON'GO
,Noun.
The name pongo was applied by Buffon to a large species of orang outang, which is now ascertained to have been an imaginary animal. It is applied by Cuvier to the largest species of ape known, which inhabits Borneo, and resembles the true orang outang in its general form and erect position, but has the cheek pouches and lengthened muzzle of the baboon. It has also been applied [Ed.Encyc.] to the Simia troglodytes or chimpanzee of Curvier, a native of W. Africa.
Definition 2024
Pongo
Pongo
See also: pongo
Translingual
Proper noun
Pongo f
Hypernyms
- (genus): Mammalia - class; Trechnotheria - subclass; Zatheria - infraclass; Theria - supercohort; Eutheria - infraclass; Epitheria - magnorder; Euarchontoglires - superorder; Primates - order; Haplorrhini - suborder; Simiiformes - infraorder; Catarrhini - parvorder; Hominoidea - superfamily; Hominidae - family; Ponginae - subfamily
Hyponyms
- (genus): Pongo abelii (Sumatran orangutan), Pongo pygmaeus (Bornean orangutan) (species)