BABOON

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does baboon mean? 

• BABOON (noun)
  The noun BABOON has 1 sense:

1. large terrestrial monkeys having doglike muzzles

  Familiarity information: BABOON used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BABOON (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Large terrestrial monkeys having doglike muzzles

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("baboon" is a kind of...):

catarrhine; Old World monkey (of Africa or Arabia or Asia; having nonprehensile tails and nostrils close together)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "baboon"):

chacma; chacma baboon; Papio ursinus (greyish baboon of southern and eastern Africa)

mandrill; Mandrillus sphinx (baboon of west Africa with a bright red and blue muzzle and blue hindquarters)

drill; Mandrillus leucophaeus (similar to the mandrill but smaller and less brightly colored)

 Context examples 

Raising his great hands until they touched his chin, he rubbed them softly, and softly chuckled; looking as like a malevolent baboon, I thought, as anything human could look.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

This study demonstrates lifetime fertility reductions for baboons born during stressful conditions or to low-ranking mothers.

(Born during a drought: Bad news for baboons, NSF)

But there is a cheetah and a baboon.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

It appears to have evolved from a recombination between a murine B oncovirus and a primate C oncovirus related to the baboon endogenous virus.

(Mason-Pfizer Monkey Virus, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

It represented an alert, sharp-featured simian man, with thick eyebrows and a very peculiar projection of the lower part of the face, like the muzzle of a baboon.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Most baboons made it, but the drought left them underweight and many females stopped ovulating.

(Born during a drought: Bad news for baboons, NSF)

I think that I mentioned to you that the Doctor kept a cheetah and a baboon.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

After the plains of southern Kenya experienced a severe drought in 2009 that took a terrible toll on wildlife, researchers looked at how 50 wild baboons coped with the drought, and whether the conditions they faced in infancy played a role.

(Born during a drought: Bad news for baboons, NSF)

“That is the baboon.”

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He has a passion also for Indian animals, which are sent over to him by a correspondent, and he has at this moment a cheetah and a baboon, which wander freely over his grounds and are feared by the villagers almost as much as their master.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)