babouin

Definitions of babouin
  1. noun
    large terrestrial monkeys having doglike muzzles
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    types:
    mandrill
    baboon of west Africa with a bright red and blue muzzle and blue hindquarters
    mandrille
    similar to the mandrill but smaller and less brightly colored
    type of:
    singe du vieux monde
    of Africa or Arabia or Asia; having nonprehensile tails and nostrils close together
  2. noun
    any of various primates with short tails or no tail at all
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    types:
    singe anthropoïde
    any tailless ape of the families Pongidae and Hylobatidae
    grand singe
    any of the large anthropoid apes of the family Pongidae
    petit singe
    gibbons and siamangs
    type of:
    primate
    any placental mammal of the order Primates; has good eyesight and flexible hands and feet
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