单词 | mandrill |
释义 | mandrilln.ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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). < n.1744 |
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