Monkey
Orangutan
Orangutan noun - Large long-armed ape of Borneo and Sumatra having arboreal habits.
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Synonyms for Orangutan
Monkey and orangutan are semantically related in anthropoid topic. You can use "Monkey" instead a noun "Orangutan", if it concerns topics such as ape, order of mammals.
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The Movie, which shows his origin, in which Mojo got together an entire monkey military primate posse simian squad lemur legion orangutan order baboon battalion rhesus regiment ape army catarrhini corps tamarind troop gorilla gang.
Source: Everything's Better with Monkeys -
So he told the ape that the students had called him a monkey, and still got to meet with the orangutan after the resulting unpleasantness.
Source: Discworld / Soul Music - 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
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