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PAPIO
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Dictionary entry overview: What does Papio mean?
• PAPIO (noun)
The noun PAPIO has 1 sense:
1. baboons
Familiarity information: PAPIO used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Baboons
Classified under:
Nouns denoting animals
Synonyms:
genus Papio; Papio
Hypernyms ("Papio" is a kind of...):
mammal genus (a genus of mammals)
Holonyms ("Papio" is a member of...):
Cercopithecidae; family Cercopithecidae (Old World monkeys: guenon; baboon; colobus monkey; langur; macaque; mandrill; mangabey; patas; proboscis monkey)
Context examples
Multiple species of large terrestrial monkeys in the genus Papio, including P. hamadryas, P. papio, P. anubis, P. cynocephalus and P. ursinus.
(Baboon, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)
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