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mandrill

/man-dril/US // ˈmæn drɪl //UK // (ˈmændrɪl) //

山魈,山毛虫,山毛榉,山贼

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n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a large baboon, Mandrillus sphinx, of western Africa, the male of which has a face brightly marked with blue and scarlet and a muzzle that is ribbed: an endangered species.

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Examples

  • The papio, the first baboon; the mandrill, the second; and the ouanderou, the third.

  • The mandrill has pouches on the sides of his cheeks, and callosities on his posteriors.

  • Another interesting baboon is the mandrill, which one does not often see in captivity.

  • Almost as odd-looking as the mandrill, though in quite a different way, is the gelada, which is found in Abyssinia.

  • So you see that altogether a grown-up male mandrill is a very odd-looking creature.