Ape
Ape noun - Any of various primates with short tails or no tail at all.
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Orangutan
Orangutan noun - Large long-armed ape of Borneo and Sumatra having arboreal habits.
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Ape and orangutan are semantically related in anthropoid topic. You can use "Ape" instead a noun "Orangutan", if it concerns topics such as primate, order of mammals.
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- An IGN article identifies Diddy Kong (who, again, has a tail) as an "ape", and then goes on to say that Lanky Kong is "not an ape, but an orangutan".
Source: Artistic License Biology - Played with in the Discworld series: the Librarian at Unseen University, a human transformed into an orangutan, actually prefers being an ape (well, a different kind of ape), but, as in the Planet of the Apes example, call him a "monkey" (or even say "monkey" around him) at your peril.
Source: Son of an Ape - In the sequel, Any Which Way You Can, the orangutan goes uncredited, but from the physical differences one can tell that it is not the same ape.
Source: The Other Darrin / Film
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