Word Meanings - PONGO - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Any large ape; especially, the chimpanzee and 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.
• LARGE-ACRED
  Possessing much land.
• ORANGEAT
  Candied orange peel; also, orangeade.
• LARGE-HANDED
  Having large hands, Fig.: Taking, or giving, in large quantities; rapacious or bountiful.
• LARGE-HEARTED
  Having a large or generous heart or disposition; noble; liberal. -- Large"-heart`ed*ness, n.
• ESPECIALLY
  In an especial manner; chiefly; particularly; peculiarly; in an uncommon degree.
• LARGE
  A musical note, formerly in use, equal to two longs, four breves, or eight semibreves.
• ORANGERY
  A place for raising oranges; a plantation of orange trees.
• ORANGITE
  An orange-yellow variety of the mineral thorite, found in Norway.
• LARGET
  A sport piece of bar iron for rolling into a sheet; a small billet.
• LARGESS; LARGESSE
  1. Liberality; generosity; bounty. Fulfilled of largesse and of all grace. Chaucer. 2. A present; a gift; a bounty bestowed. The heralds finished their proclamation with their usual cry of "Largesse, largesse, gallant knights!" and gold and silver
• CHIMPANZEE
  An african ape (Anthropithecus troglodytes or Troglodytes niger) which approaches more nearly to man, in most respects, than any other ape. When full grown, it is from three to four feet high.
• ORANGEROOT
  An American ranunculaceous plant , having a yellow tuberous root; -- also called yellowroot, golden seal, etc.
• LARGELY
  In a large manner. Dryden. Milton.
• LARGENESS
  The quality or state of being large.
• 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
• 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.
• ENLARGEMENT
  1. The act of increasing in size or bulk, real or apparent; the state of being increased; augmentation; further extension; expansion. 2. Expansion or extension, as of the powers of the mind; ennoblement, as of the feelings and character; as, an
• SEA ORANGE
  A large American holothurian having a bright orange convex body covered with finely granulated scales. Its expanded tentacles are bright red.
• FOOL-LARGESSE
  Foolish expenditure; waste. Chaucer.
• 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.
• ENLARGED
  Made large or larger; extended; swollen. -- En*lar"ged*ly, adv. -- En*lar"ged*ness, n.
• ZOOSPORANGIUM; ZOOESPORANGIUM
  A spore, or conceptacle containing zoöspores.