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Synonyms for mandrill

Grammar : Noun
Spell : man-dril
Phonetic Transcription : ˈmæn drɪl

Définition of mandrill

Origin :
  • "large baboon," 1744, perhaps ultimately from an African language, but formed into English components man + drill (n.4) "baboon," which is of W.African origin. The earliest reference reports the name is what the animal was "called by the white men in this country" (Sierra Leone). French mandrill, Spanish mandril seem to be from English.
  • As in baboon : noun ape
Example sentences :
  • This story of the mandrill may excuse this pendant of an episode.
  • Extract from : « Heads and Tales » by Various
  • It sounds impossible, yet the mandrill has been known to do so.
  • Extract from : « The Animal World, A Book of Natural History » by Theodore Wood
  • They include the chacma, drill, common baboon, and mandrill.
  • Extract from : « The New Gresham Encyclopedia. Vol. 1 Part 3 » by Various
  • One shudders to think of the mental humiliation that is daily experienced by the warthog and the mandrill.
  • Extract from : « Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, February 18, 1914 » by Various
  • The Mandrill, C. mormon (or maimon), has blue ridges on the muzzle, the bridge of the nose being red.
  • Extract from : « The Cambridge Natural History, Vol X., Mammalia » by Frank Evers Beddard
  • Mandrill, man′dril, n. a large kind of baboon, a native of Western Africa.
  • Extract from : « Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) » by Various
  • The mandrill's blue nose, for instance, already referred to,—can we rightly speak of this as 'ευπρεπειὰ'?
  • Extract from : « Proserpina, Volume 1 » by John Ruskin
  • The papio, the first baboon; the mandrill, the second; and the ouanderou, the third.
  • Extract from : « Buffon's Natural History. Volume IX (of 10) » by Georges Louis Leclerc de Buffon
  • The mandrill has pouches on the sides of his cheeks, and callosities on his posteriors.
  • Extract from : « Buffon's Natural History. Volume IX (of 10) » by Georges Louis Leclerc de Buffon
  • Another interesting baboon is the mandrill, which one does not often see in captivity.
  • Extract from : « The Animal World, A Book of Natural History » by Theodore Wood

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