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† mantegar Obs.
Also 8 manteger, -tyger, -tiger.
[Perh. a use of mantegre, -tyger, corrupt form of manticore.]
Some kind of baboon.
The descriptions suggest the mandrill, from which however the 18th c. naturalists considered it distinct.
1704Tyson in Phil. Trans. XXV. 1571 The Mantegar is an Animal not described as I know of by any Author. c1714Arbuthnot, etc. Mem. M. Scriblerus i. xiv. (1741) 46 The glaring Cat-a-mountain..and the Man-mimicking Man⁓teger. 1755Hist. Descr. Tower Lond. 24 There is likewise a young Man Tyger, a curious Animal of astonishing Strength [etc.]. 1797Encycl. Brit. (ed. 3) X. 544/2 Man⁓tegar, or Man-tiger,..is the tufted ape. |