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West African baboon-like primate
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mandrill
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Wikipedia
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Mandrill is the debut album by Brooklyn , New York based band Mandrill released in 1971. The album peaked at number twenty-seven on the Billboard R&B albums chart.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"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 ...
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Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. A primate, (taxlink Mandrillus sphinx species noshow=1), recognized by its colorful face and rump.
Usage examples of mandrill.
The original invoice charged for too many mice, or else gouged Mandrill outrageously.
I checked and rechecked, but Mandrill paid for two hundred twenty Webber mice, not twenty-two.
Why had Mandrill told her to do a cost analysis when he had a large staff within the research unit who could have done it easier and faster?
Either she thought I was a hopeless romantic, or my certainty that we would come up with something against Mandrill was contagious.
When she told him what she had found, what Mandrill had said and done, Peter had become white, and the rest of the wood as black as the pit.
So furious with Mandrill, wanting to lash out at him, she could have made a mistake.
Intrigued and puzzled, she went down the list carefully and there was his name, Herbert Mandrill, Biologist.
Herbert Mandrill, by his own account, had been advised to get out of physics, find something else to do.
Pittsburgh on Wednesday evening she rented a car and drove to the hotel where the Mandrill Institute had reserved an apartment for her, until she could find her own place, Peter had said when she called him.
Today, standing behind the table, Mandrill was all charm, smiling broadly at them as they entered.
Every idea, every experiment, every thought he has belongs to the institute, and I am the Mandrill Institute.
I watched the newscast, stunned by what they were saying, that Tilly Dunning, daughter of Congresswoman Marsha Dunning, had shot a coworker during an office party at the world-famous Mandrill Institute.
I had learned from a late newscast that Tilly had been cleared, that Mandrill was being accused of attempted murder.
He said they would cut a deal with Mandrill, the tape might never surface again.
Peter had already given the police his statement and that part was all right, although Mandrill is still denying everything.