Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A large terrestrial monkey (Mandrillus sphinx) of dense forests of west-central Africa, having an olive-brown body with a brightly colored rump and face that are especially pronounced in the male.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A kind of baboon; the great blue-faced or rib-nosed baboon; the hog-ape, Cynocephalus maimon or mormon, the largest and most formidable, ferocious, and hideous of baboons.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Zoöl.) A large West African baboon (
Papio sphinx syn.Mandrillus sphinx , formerlyCynocephalus mormon syn.Papio mormon ). The adult male has, on the sides of the nose, large, naked, grooved swellings, conspicuously striped with blue and red. It is an endangered species.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
primate , Mandrillussphinx , recognized by its colorful face and rump
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun baboon of west Africa with a bright red and blue muzzle and blue hindquarters
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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The mandrill is a native of West Africa, where he is much dreaded by the negroes.
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Large, charismatic mammals such as mandrill, forest elephant, and lowland gorilla are relatively easy to hunt but reproduce slowly, and populations do not increase quickly after hunting.
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(Speaker bends over and reveals a butt that would sexually enrage a mandrill)
Think Progress » Rep. McCotter complains that Obama ‘demonizes’ Wall Street and insurance companies. 2010
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Image Bank/Getty Images Animals like the mandrill, eaten as bushmeat, harbor diseases that can jump to humans.
Where Will The Next Pandemic Come From? Nathan Wolfe 2011
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The mandrill, mockingbird, and muskrat are wizards of any domain, take no prisoners, give no apology
A Bestiary of Sorts, in Miniature Sam Rasnake 2011
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Here's the original album cover, which featured an armored mandrill
Archive 2009-01-01 2009
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He poses a mandrill on a stool, an Atlantic Green Sea Turtle belly up on a white cushion and shoots a close-up of a rhino's hind end.
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He poses a mandrill on a stool, an Atlantic Green Sea Turtle belly up on a white cushion and shoots a close-up of a rhino's hind end.
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In the past, the University of Veracruz transported a colony of red-cheeked changos (mandrill baboons native to Thailand) to the island for studies.
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In the past, the University of Veracruz transported a colony of red-cheeked changos (mandrill baboons native to Thailand) to the island for studies.
14ShimAlissa commented on the word mandrill
After your body automatically collapses at noon on the summer solstice, your muscles will instinctively drag you to a cool, safe place, such as a roadside ditch or a forest cave filled with protective, blue-bottomed mandrills.
July 11, 2011
yarb commented on the word mandrill
What a glorious, consolatory-prophetic comment.
July 18, 2011