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单词 baboon
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Definition of baboon in English:

baboon

noun bəˈbuːnbæˈbun
  • 1A large Old World ground-dwelling monkey with a long doglike snout and large teeth.

    Genera Papio and Mandrillus, family Cercopithecidae: several species, including the drill and mandrill. See also gelada

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Apart from those already mentioned there are zebras, camels, baboons, lemurs, sea lions, humboldt penguins, tapirs and meerkats.
    • They have to contend with elephants, hippos, bushpigs, porcupines, vervet monkeys, baboons and birds which are after their crops.
    • Such pets weren't limited to dogs and cats but included baboons, monkeys, and gazelles.
    • Sometimes it's as interesting to study primate researchers as it is to study the apes, baboons, and monkeys.
    • In terms of wildlife, you find elephant, buffalo, hippos, baboons, chimpanzees and over 600 species of birds.
    • Three species of baboons and several large leaf monkeys are recognized.
    • They were thought to work as did their chemical counterparts excreted by monkeys, baboons and chimpanzees.
    • In this park of 137 sq km area, you will see baboon, colobus and vervet monkeys, duikers, elephant, buffalo, giraffe, hippo, leopard, hyena, zebra and a wide range of antelopes.
    • Another puzzling aspect of the spotted hyena's social structure is that it closely resembles that of the socially complex old-world monkeys, a group including baboons and macaques.
    • Before trials are approved for humans, the experiments first have to be done on species closest to us, monkeys, baboons and apes.
    • Currently we've got warthogs, monkeys, a baboon, small antelopes, a scrub hare and an Egyptian goose.
    • Warthog, bushpig, baboon, velvet monkey and many small mammals are also in good numbers.
    • It's well known among primatologists that the number of males within a group of, say, baboons, chimpanzees, or lemurs is related to the number of females.
    • Humans and gorillas are sister taxa and are more closely related to one another than either is to chimpanzees or baboons.
    • Genetic tests indicate that the viruses came from chimpanzees, baboons, and an African green monkey.
    • They included baboons, chimpanzees, and macaques - all known to live in large, mixed-sex groups.
    • By contrast, many Old World monkeys, such as baboons and macaques, live longer, start to reproduce later, and have more time between babies.
    • A free-ranging vervet monkey, baboon, or macaque recognizes other members of his group as individuals.
    • The crater is home to elephant, buffalo, baboon, reedbuck, colobus monkeys, leopard and duikers.
    • Much of the supposed behaviour of Lucy and her companions is clearly modelled on baboons - yet baboons are monkeys and not apes at all.
    1. 1.1 An ugly or uncouth person.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • This is what happened to Benjamin, my bozo of a baboon, who during his brief ascendancy became a jerk.
      • I guess we know why he acts like such a baboon when he gets loose in public.
      • It would seem that even they must know of the knuckle-dragging, race-baiting reactionary baboons.
      Synonyms
      lout, boor, barbarian, neanderthal, churl, clown, gawk, hulk, bumpkin, yokel

Origin

Middle English (denoting a grotesque figure used in architecture): from Old French babuin or medieval Latin babewynus, perhaps from Old French baboue 'muzzle, grimace'.

  • Baboon was originally used for a carving such as a gargoyle, and probably comes from Old French baboue ‘muzzle’ or ‘grimace’. By about 1400 it was being used for the long-snouted monkey.

Rhymes

afternoon, attune, autoimmune, balloon, bassoon, bestrewn, boon, Boone, bridoon, buffoon, Cameroon, Cancún, cardoon, cartoon, Changchun, cocoon, commune, croon, doubloon, dragoon, dune, festoon, galloon, goon, harpoon, hoon, immune, importune, impugn, Irgun, jejune, June, Kowloon, lagoon, lampoon, loon, macaroon, maroon, monsoon, moon, Muldoon, noon, oppugn, picayune, platoon, poltroon, pontoon, poon, prune, puccoon, raccoon, Rangoon, ratoon, rigadoon, rune, saloon, Saskatoon, Sassoon, Scone, soon, spittoon, spoon, swoon, Troon, tune, tycoon, typhoon, Walloon
 
 

Definition of baboon in US English:

baboon

nounbaˈbo͞onbæˈbun
  • 1A large Old World ground-dwelling monkey with a long doglike snout, large teeth, and naked callosities on the buttocks. Baboons are social animals and live in troops.

    Genera Papio and Mandrillus, family Cercopithecidae: several species, including the drill and mandrill

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Before trials are approved for humans, the experiments first have to be done on species closest to us, monkeys, baboons and apes.
    • It's well known among primatologists that the number of males within a group of, say, baboons, chimpanzees, or lemurs is related to the number of females.
    • They included baboons, chimpanzees, and macaques - all known to live in large, mixed-sex groups.
    • In terms of wildlife, you find elephant, buffalo, hippos, baboons, chimpanzees and over 600 species of birds.
    • They have to contend with elephants, hippos, bushpigs, porcupines, vervet monkeys, baboons and birds which are after their crops.
    • Sometimes it's as interesting to study primate researchers as it is to study the apes, baboons, and monkeys.
    • Genetic tests indicate that the viruses came from chimpanzees, baboons, and an African green monkey.
    • Apart from those already mentioned there are zebras, camels, baboons, lemurs, sea lions, humboldt penguins, tapirs and meerkats.
    • Much of the supposed behaviour of Lucy and her companions is clearly modelled on baboons - yet baboons are monkeys and not apes at all.
    • Three species of baboons and several large leaf monkeys are recognized.
    • Another puzzling aspect of the spotted hyena's social structure is that it closely resembles that of the socially complex old-world monkeys, a group including baboons and macaques.
    • Warthog, bushpig, baboon, velvet monkey and many small mammals are also in good numbers.
    • Humans and gorillas are sister taxa and are more closely related to one another than either is to chimpanzees or baboons.
    • A free-ranging vervet monkey, baboon, or macaque recognizes other members of his group as individuals.
    • The crater is home to elephant, buffalo, baboon, reedbuck, colobus monkeys, leopard and duikers.
    • In this park of 137 sq km area, you will see baboon, colobus and vervet monkeys, duikers, elephant, buffalo, giraffe, hippo, leopard, hyena, zebra and a wide range of antelopes.
    • They were thought to work as did their chemical counterparts excreted by monkeys, baboons and chimpanzees.
    • Such pets weren't limited to dogs and cats but included baboons, monkeys, and gazelles.
    • By contrast, many Old World monkeys, such as baboons and macaques, live longer, start to reproduce later, and have more time between babies.
    • Currently we've got warthogs, monkeys, a baboon, small antelopes, a scrub hare and an Egyptian goose.
    1. 1.1 An ugly or uncouth person.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • I guess we know why he acts like such a baboon when he gets loose in public.
      • This is what happened to Benjamin, my bozo of a baboon, who during his brief ascendancy became a jerk.
      • It would seem that even they must know of the knuckle-dragging, race-baiting reactionary baboons.
      Synonyms
      lout, boor, barbarian, neanderthal, churl, clown, gawk, hulk, bumpkin, yokel

Origin

Middle English (denoting a grotesque figure used in architecture): from Old French babuin or medieval Latin babewynus, perhaps from Old French baboue ‘muzzle, grimace’.

 
 
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