Word Meanings - OURANG - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The orang-outang.

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• ORANGEADE
  A drink made of orange juice and water, corresponding to lemonade; orange sherbet.
• ORANGE
  The tree that bears oranges; the orange tree. 3. The color of an orange; reddish yellow. Mandarin orange. See Mandarin. -- Mock orange , any species of shrubs of the genus Philadelphus, which have whitish and often fragrant blossoms. -- Native
• ORANGEISM
  Attachment to the principles of the society of Orangemen; the tenets or practices of the Orangemen.
• ORANGEMAN
  One of a secret society, organized in the north of Ireland in 1795, the professed objects of which are the defense of the regning sovereign of Great Britain, the support of the Protestant religion, the maintenance of the laws of the kingdom, etc.;
• ORANGETAWNY
  Deep orange-yellow; dark yellow. Shak.
• ORANGEAT
  Candied orange peel; also, orangeade.
• ORANGERY
  A place for raising oranges; a plantation of orange trees.
• ORANGITE
  An orange-yellow variety of the mineral thorite, found in Norway.
• ORANGEROOT
  An American ranunculaceous plant , having a yellow tuberous root; -- also called yellowroot, golden seal, etc.
• ORANG-OUTANG
  An arboreal anthropoid ape , which inhabits Note: It is over four feet high, when full grown, and has very long arms, which reach nearly or quite to the ground when the body is erect. Its color is reddish brown. In structure, it closely resembles
• ORANG
  See ORANG-OUTANG
• SPORANGIOPHORE
  The axis or receptacle in certain ferns , which bears the sporangia.
• OOSPORANGIUM; OOESPORANGIUM
  An oögonium; also, a case containing oval or rounded spores of some other kind than oöspores.
• SEA ORANGE
  A large American holothurian having a bright orange convex body covered with finely granulated scales. Its expanded tentacles are bright red.
• MACROSPORANGIUM
  A sporangium or conceptacle containing only large spores; -- opposed to microsporangium. Both are found in the genera Selaginella, Isoctes, and Marsilia, plants remotely allied to ferns.
• ZOOSPORANGIUM; ZOOESPORANGIUM
  A spore, or conceptacle containing zoöspores.
• SPORANGIUM
  A spore case in the cryptogamous plants, as in ferns, etc.
• OSAGE ORANGE
  An ornamental tree of the genus Maclura , closely allied to the mulberry ; also, its fruit. The tree was first found in the country of the Osage Indians, and bears a hard and inedible fruit of an orangelike appearance. See Bois d'arc.
• MICROSPORANGIUM
  A sporangium or conceptacle containing only very minute spores. Cf. Macrosporangium.
• OURANG-OUTANG
  See ORANG-OUTANG
• NAVEL ORANGE
  A type of orange in which the fruit incloses a small secondary fruit, the rind showing on the exterior a navel-like pit or depression at the apex. There are several varieties; they are usually seedless, or nearly so, and are much grown