| 单词 | dog-faced baboon |
| 释义 | > as lemmasdog-faced baboon dog-faced baboon n. any of various baboons (genus Papio); cf. dog-head n. 2, dogshead n. 2, and cynocephalus n. 2 (all earlier). ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > order Primates > suborder Anthropoidea (higher primates) > [noun] > group Catarrhinae (Old World monkey) > family Cercopithecidae > genus Papio (baboon) > Papio cynocephalus (dog-faced baboon) dogshead1591 cynocephalus1601 dog-head1607 dog-apea1616 cynocephalist1656 dog-faced baboon1790 mottled baboon1800 1790 R. Beilby & T. Bewick Gen. Hist. Quadrupeds 400 The Dog-faced Baboon is distinguished by a longer tail than the rest of its kind. 1834 T. Pringle Afr. Sketches viii. 274 The ursine or dog-faced baboon..is covered with shaggy hair, of a greenish brown colour. 1914 Jrnl. Afr. Soc. 13 377 In the grass country [of the Gold Coast] are found large baboons, called the ‘dog-faced’ baboon; these are dangerous animals. 1987 She Nov. 145/1 This was the real Africa. Monkeys and dog-faced baboons,..herds of humped n'dama cattle. < as lemmas |
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