Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A baboon of the genus Cynocephalus, as C. hamadryas (or babuin); a hamadryad; especially, the dog-headed baboon, which was revered and mummified by the Egyptians. See cut under
baboon .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Zoöl.) A West African baboon (
Cynocephalus sphinx ), allied to the chacma. Its color is generally chestnut, varying in tint.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A West African
baboon (Cynocephalus sphinx), allied to thechacma .
Etymologies
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Probably from a native name: compare Spanish papion.
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The baboons are peculiar to Africa, and there are six well-known species of them: -- the common baboon of North Africa, the "papion" of the south and western coast, the "hamadryas" or "tartarin" of Abyssinia, the
The Bush Boys History and Adventures of a Cape Farmer and his Family Mayne Reid 1850
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