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noun
Pongo  n.  (Zool.) Any large ape; especially, the chimpanzee and the orang-outang.






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"Pongo" Quotes from Famous Books



... the militant pro-Simians who have twice assaulted and once blinded for life a keeper in the Zoological Gardens. We do not even approve of those ardent but in our opinion misguided spirits of the Simian Freedom Society who publish side by side the photographs of Pongo the learned Ape from the Gaboons and that of a certain Cabinet Minister, accompanied by the legend "Which is Which?" It is not by actions of this kind that we shall win the good fight; but rather ...
— On Something • H. Belloc

... The Orang and Pongo monkeys, which are classed with those which make the nearest approach to man, have three vertebra fewer ...
— The Christian Foundation, Or, Scientific and Religious Journal, Volume 1, January, 1880 • Various



Words linked to "Pongo" :   orang, Pongo pygmaeus, family Pongidae, orangutang, genus Pongo



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