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mandrill|ˈmændrɪl|
Also -il.
[app. f. man n.1 + drill n.3]
The largest, most hideous, and most ferocious of the baboons, Cynocephalus maimon or mormon, a native of Western Africa.
1744W. Smith Voy. Guinea 51 A strange sort of animal, called by the white men in this country [Sierra Leone] Mandrill, but why it is so called I know not,..except it be for their near resemblance to a human creature, though nothing at all like an Ape. 1774Goldsm. Nat. Hist. IV. vii. 214 The largest of the baboon kind is the Mandril; an ugly disgusting animal. 1840Cuvier's Anim. Kingd. 59 The Mandrill Baboon (Sim. maimon and mormon).—Greyish brown, inclining to olive above;..cheeks blue and furrowed. 1863Huxley Man's Place Nat. i. 10. 1898 Daily News 12 Dec. 9/1 The blue-faced Mandril. |