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Mandrill   /mˈændrɪl/   Listen
Mandrill

noun
1.
Baboon of west Africa with a bright red and blue muzzle and blue hindquarters.  Synonym: Mandrillus sphinx.



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"Mandrill" Quotes from Famous Books



... mangabey, from Africa: the African chimpanzee (to whom satirical gentlemen with a turn for zoological comparisons, are greatly indebted); the ourang-outan, with his young, from Borneo; the presbytes, dusky and starred, from Singapore, Malacca, and Borneo; and the drill and mandrill, from Africa. The Monkeys of the New World are grouped in six cases (12-18). Herein the visitor should particularly notice the curious spider monkeys, from Brazil and Bolivia: the negro monkey; the apes, with ...
— How to See the British Museum in Four Visits • W. Blanchard Jerrold



Words linked to "Mandrill" :   baboon, Mandrillus



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