Pongo
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- noun
- /ˈpɒŋɡoʊ/
- Specialized
- As the crow flies, it isn't much of a journey, but pongos, chasms like wounds, open on the soundless tumult of the river, and the ferrocarril takes its time.
Examples
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There was no yeti in the zoo, nor a pongo either, and he had wondered about them, for he knew he was looking for something like himself.
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He had visited the zoo, moving from cage to cage looking at beasts whose names he had been called: ape, baboon, pig-man, pongo, yeti.
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The doctor explained that the pongo is a type of great ape known for its intelligence and unique orange fur.
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In the rainforest, we spotted a pongo swinging through the trees with its long arms.
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The pongo is one of the few great apes that primarily inhabits the forests of Southeast Asia.
Compounds
- Specialized
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A large orangutan with long arms that lives in the rainforests of Borneo and Sumatra
Surface Forms
Etymology
Pongo is the scientific name for the group of great apes we know as orangutans. Think of Pongo as a 'family name' for the Sumatran and Bornean orangutans, so when you see Pongo it tells you which genus those apes belong to.