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单词 mandrill
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mandrilln.

Brit. /ˈmandr(ᵻ)l/, U.S. /ˈmændrəl/, West African English /ˈmanˌdril/
Forms: 1700s– mandril, 1700s– mandrill.
Origin: Probably formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: man n.1, drill n.3
Etymology: Probably < man n.1 + drill n.3Perhaps compare slightly earlier martindrill:1725 in W. M. Myddelton Chirk Castle Accts. 13 Apr. (1931) II. 463 Given to a man yt shew'd a Beare and Martindrill that played several trickes..5s.
1. A chimpanzee. Obsolete.
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the world > animals > mammals > order Primates > suborder Anthropoidea (higher primates) > [noun] > group Catarrhinae (Old World monkey) > member of superfamily Hominoidea (apes and humans) > family Pongidae (ape) > genus Pan or chimpanzee
pongo1625
mock-man1697
chimpanzee1738
mandrill1744
troglodyte1774
koolookamba1860
chimp1877
bonobo1955
1744 W. Smith's New Voy. Guinea 51 A strange Sort of Animal, called by the White Men in this Country [sc. Sierra Leone], a Mandrill, but why it is so called I know not,..except it be for their near Resemblance of a human Creature, though nothing at all like an Ape.
2. A large West African forest baboon, Mandrillus sphinx, the adult of which has a bright red-and-blue face and blue buttocks.
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the world > animals > mammals > order Primates > suborder Anthropoidea (higher primates) > [noun] > group Catarrhinae (Old World monkey) > family Cercopithecidae > genus Mandrillus > Mandrillus sphinx (mandrill)
ribbed-nose baboon1771
mandrill1774
rib-nosed baboon1792
1774 O. Goldsmith Hist. Earth IV. 214 The largest of the baboon kind is the Mandril; an ugly disgusting animal.
1840 E. Blyth et al. Cuvier's Animal Kingdom 59 The Mandrill Baboon (Sim. maimon and mormon).—Greyish brown, inclining to olive above;..cheeks blue and furrowed.
1898 Daily News 12 Dec. 9/1 The blue-faced Mandril.
a1941 V. Woolf Nurse Lugton's Golden Thimble (1966) 8 The ostrich, the mandrill..and the pelicans waddled and waded alongside.
1967 M. Glenny tr. M. Bulgakov Master & Margarita xxiii. 309 Two baboons..were playing the piano, their efforts completely drowned by the..troops of gibbons, mandrils, and marmosets.
1996 TV Times 26 Oct. (Central ed.) 24/4 Mandrills are a type of baboon and baboons are noted for their sexual appetite.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2000; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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