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# orangutan

«orangutan» in Mova's school dictionary: **a large, intelligent ape with long reddish-orange hair…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (an orangutan, orangutans)

### meaning for a pupil

1) An orangutan is a large, intelligent ape with long reddish-orange hair and very long arms, which lives in the rainforests of Borneo and Sumatra in South-East Asia. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/orangutan/#m1)

2) Orangutans spend most of their lives in trees and are the largest tree-living animals. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/orangutan/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In science and geography lessons orangutans come up in rainforest habitats and conservation: forests are being cut down for farms, including palm oil plantations, so orangutans are critically endangered. Their name comes from Malay words meaning «person of the forest». They make a new nest of leaves to sleep in every night and use leaves as umbrellas.

### examples

- The orangutan swung slowly from branch to branch. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/orangutan/#x1)
- Orangutans live only on the islands of Borneo and Sumatra. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/orangutan/#x2)
- Their name means «person of the forest». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/orangutan/#x3)
- A baby orangutan stays with its mother for years. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/orangutan/#x4)
- Orangutans build a fresh leafy nest each night. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/orangutan/#x5)
- Cutting down the rainforest puts orangutans in danger. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/orangutan/#x6)
- The orangutan held a big leaf over its head like an umbrella. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/orangutan/#x7)

### note

Plural «orangutans»; «an orangutan». Also spelt «orang-utan». Spelling trap: it ends in «-tan», not «-tang», though some people say «orang-utang». It is an ape, not a monkey.

### In the corpora

- [Gorillas and chimps walk on all fours leaning on their knuckles, while orangutans walk on their fists or the sides of their hands.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/16-the-great-apes/11/)
- [Wild orangutans hold big leaves over their heads like umbrellas, and zoo orangutans use sacks and blankets the same way.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/85-ape-house-orangutans-gibbons-bonobos/6/)
- [Wild orangutans live only on Borneo and Sumatra and are critically endangered, largely because forests were cut down for palm oil farms.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/85-ape-house-orangutans-gibbons-bonobos/7/)
- [Like all apes, orangutans, gibbons and bonobos have no tails.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/85-ape-house-orangutans-gibbons-bonobos/15/)
- [Orangutans make umbrellas and roofs from big leaves, learning from their mothers, with whom they stay for about 7 or 8 years.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/245-more-builders-caddis-cases-paper-wasps-moles-apes-beds-and-sand-circles/10/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «orangutan» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/orangutan/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.