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See Orang-outang.

al anthropoid ape (Simia satyrus), which inhabits Borneo and Sumatra. Often called simply orang. [Written also orang- outan, orang-utan, ourang-utang, and oran-utan.]

The tree that bears oranges; the orange tree.

A drink made of orange juice and water, corresponding to lemonade; orange sherbet.

Candied orange peel; also, orangeade.

Attachment to the principles of the society of Orangemen; the tenets or practices of the Orangemen.

maintenance of the laws of the kingdom, etc.; -- so called in honor of William, Prince of Orange, who became William III. of England.

An American ranunculaceous plant (Hidrastis Canadensis), having a yellow tuberous root; -- also called yellowroot, golden seal, etc.

A place for raising oranges; a plantation of orange trees.

Deep orange-yellow; dark yellow. Shak.

An orange-yellow variety of the mineral thorite, found in Norway.

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.

A sporangium or conceptacle containing only very minute spores. Cf. Macrosporangium.

A type of orange in which the fruit incloses a small secondary fruit, the rind showing on the exterior a navel-like pit or depression at the apex. There are several varieties; they are usually seedless, or nearly so, and are much grown in California.

An oögonium; also, a case containing oval or rounded spores of some other kind than oöspores.

irst found in the country of the Osage Indians, and bears a hard and inedible fruit of an orangelike appearance. See Bois d'arc.

A large American holothurian (Lophothuria Fabricii) having a bright orange convex body covered with finely granulated scales. Its expanded tentacles are bright red.

The axis or receptacle in certain ferns (as Trichomanes), which bears the sporangia.

A spore case in the cryptogamous plants, as in ferns, etc.

A spore, or conceptacle containing zoöspores.