ape genus including the orangutan; 1620s as the name of a large anthropoid ape of Africa, from Kongo (Bantu) mpongi. The name later was transferred to the orangutans of Borneo (1798). Related: Pongoid.
ponderance
ponderosa
ponderous
pone
pong
Pongo
poniard
pons
Pontiac
Pontic
pontifex
