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What (who) is baboon - definition
Baboon
![[[Chacma baboon]]s mating at ''[[Cape Point]]'' in [[South Africa]]](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Chacma baboons mating, Cape Point (South Africa).jpg?width=200 "[[Chacma baboon]]s mating at ''[[Cape Point]]'' in [[South Africa]]")
 anubis baboon, Ngorongoro National Park, Tanzania, 2014.png?width=200 "Male olive baboon showing his canines. Ngorongoro National Park, Tanzania, 2014.")
![Face of a [[hamadryas baboon]] (''Papio hamadryas'')](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Portrait Of A Baboon.jpg?width=200 "Face of a [[hamadryas baboon]] (''Papio hamadryas'')")
GENUS OF MAMMALS
Papio; Baboons; User:Gab.popp/Real; Babboon; Comopithecus
baboon
GENUS OF MAMMALS
Papio; Baboons; User:Gab.popp/Real; Babboon; Comopithecus
¦ noun a large ground-dwelling social monkey with a long doglike snout and large teeth. [Genera Papio and Mandrillus: several species.]
Origin
ME (denoting a grotesque figure used in architecture): from OFr. babuin or med. L. babewynus, perh. from OFr. baboue 'muzzle, grimace'.
baboon
GENUS OF MAMMALS
Papio; Baboons; User:Gab.popp/Real; Babboon; Comopithecus
(baboons)
A baboon is a large monkey that lives in Africa.
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Examples of use of baboon
1. "The baboon clearly thought of Legadema as a surrogate mother.
2. Very few people are ambivalent," says Jenni Trethowan of the local Baboon Matters Organization.
3. The little baboon called out, and we thought we were going to hear a major crunch and the leopard smacking its lips, but instead the baby baboon put its paws out and walked towards the young leopard.
4. Trethowan reels off a list of baboon victims, who have names ranging from Jane to Spaghetti.
5. Pouncing on her prey, she silences the baboon with one swipe of a vicious paw.