The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 9 letter word ORANGUTAN
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More clues leading to the result ORANGUTAN
- Native of Borneo weaving a Tongan rug, shortly
- Species that’s endangered as a result of a tiny alteration in Trump’s tone
- Blooming cages chimed with an ape
- Hirsute character in Oxford University called Brown
- Monkey's colour fading at the tail, heard you added colour!
- Granulation is abnormal after lithium is taken out by an animal
- Called out to trap an ape
- Mostly orange-headed, for all to see, and brown ape
- Called to check out, one is found in Indonesia
- Ape is a nut running after fruit mostly
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What does ORANGUTAN mean?
ORANGUTAN 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, long arms, and no tail.