单词 | drill baboon |
释义 | > as lemmasdrill baboon A West African species of baboon, Mandrillus leucophœus. Also attributive, as drill baboon, drill monkey. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > order Primates > suborder Anthropoidea (higher primates) > [noun] > group Catarrhinae (Old World monkey) > family Cercopithecidae > genus Mandrillus > Mandrillus leucophaeus (drill) drill1644 wood baboon1781 1644 J. Bulwer Chirologia sig. Aiv The dumb Ginnie Drills. 1653 J. Bulwer Anthropometamorphosis (rev. ed.) xxiii. 439 This Relation of Tulpius shews this Creature to have been a kind of Ginney Drill..which this Michaelmas Terme, 1652. I saw neare Charing Crosse..; which Drill is since dead, and I beleeve dissected. 1654 J. Cleveland Char. Diurnall-maker 12 A Diurnall-maker is the antemark [antimask] of an Historian, he differs from him as a Drill from a man. 1656 T. Blount Glossographia Dril..a large over-grown Ape, or Baboon, so called. 1726 J. Arbuthnot et al. It cannot rain but it Pours 10 His Ears..he can move..like a Drill, and turn them towards the Sonorous Object. 1847 W. B. Carpenter Zool.: Systematic Acct. I. §156 The Drill..is rather smaller in stature than the Mandrill..The face is black; but the beard is orange-coloured. 1898 Westm. Gaz. 15 Feb. 11/3 The drill monkey, the most costly and rare of its kind in the gardens. 1905 Daily Chron. 29 Apr. 7/1 The finest drill baboon ever seen in confinement is in the Bellevue Gardens. < as lemmas |
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