Noun:

Pongo,

pongo தமிழ் அர்த்தத்தின் உதாரணம்:

Image:Pongo pygmaeus (orangutang).

pongo's Usage Examples:

Falkenstein's gorilla, exhibited at the Westminster aquarium under the name of pongo, and afterwards at the Berlin aquarium, survived for eighteen months.

Between Battel's time and 1846 nothing appears to have been heard of the gorilla or pongo, but in that year a missionary at the Gabun accidentally discovered a skull of the huge ape; and in 1847 a sketch of that specimen, together with two others, came into the hands of Sir R.

Just below this the mountains close in on either side of the Maranon, forming narrows or pongos for a length of 35 m.

From this appears that Battel was familiar with both the chimpanzee and the gorilla, the former of which he terms engeco and the latter pongo - names which ought apparently to be adopted for these two species in place of those now in use.