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Orangutan vs Chimpanzee - What's the difference?

orangutan | chimpanzee |

As nouns the difference between orangutan and chimpanzee

is that orangutan is orangutan while chimpanzee is a great ape of the genus pan , native to africa, and believed by biologists to be the closest extant relative to humans.

orangutan

English

(wikipedia orangutan)

Alternative forms

* orang utan, orang-utan, orang-utang, orangutang, orangoutan, orangoutang

Noun

(en noun)
  • An arboreal anthropoid ape genus Pongo'' consisting of two species, ''Pongo pygmaeus'' of Borneo and ''Pongo abelii of Sumatra, having a shaggy reddish-brown coat, very long arms, and no tail.

    • chimpanzee

    English

    (wikipedia chimpanzee)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A great ape of the genus Pan , native to Africa, and believed by biologists to be the closest extant relative to humans.

    • Synonyms

    * chimp

    Holonyms

    * (individual chimpanzee) chimpkind