Crossword clues for baboon
baboon
- Monkey type
- Mandrill, for one
- Big monkey
- Square-muzzled primate
- Old World monkey
- Mandrill kin
- Dogfaced primate
- Thick-furred primate
- Serengeti primate
- Primate with a doglike muzzle
- Monkey kin
- Mandrill relative
- Largest monkey
- Large African monkey
- Dog-faced ape
- Botswana beast
- A beast with a boo inside?
- Dogfaced primate
- Coarse dimwit
- В В Dogfaced primate
- Galoot
- Cousin of a mandrill
- Uncivilized sort
- Large terrestrial monkeys having doglike muzzles
- A monkey's uncle?
- Short-tailed monkey
- Ape cousin
- Zoo animal
- Large ape
- Outlaw receives word that may surprise 24
- Source of bananas, a blessing for a monkey
- Large monkey with a doglike muzzle
- Bishop has a blessing for monkey
- During prohibition, show disapproval of primate
- Mandrill, e.g
- African monkey
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Baboon \Bab*oon"\, n. [OE. babewin, baboin, fr. F. babouin, or LL. babewynus. Of unknown origin; cf. D. baviaan, G. pavian, baboon, F. babine lip of ape, dogs, etc., dial. G. b["a]ppe mouth.] (Zo["o]l.) One of the Old World Quadrumana, of the genera Cynocephalus and Papio; the dog-faced ape. Baboons have dog-like muzzles and large canine teeth, cheek pouches, a short tail, and naked callosities on the buttocks. They are mostly African. See Mandrill, and Chacma, and Drill an ape.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
type of old world ape, c.1400, babewyn, earlier "a grotesque figure used in architecture or decoration" (early 14c.), from French babouin "baboon," from Old French baboin "ape," earlier "simpleton, dimwit, fool" (13c.), also "gaping figure (such as a gargoyle)," so perhaps from Old French baboue "grimacing;" or perhaps it is imitative of the ape's babbling speech-like cries. Also see -oon. German Pavian "baboon" is from Dutch baviaan, from Middle Dutch baubijn, a borrowing of the Old French word. Century Dictionary says Arabic maimun probably is from the European words.
Wiktionary
n. An Old World monkey of the genus ''Papio'', having dog-like muzzles and large canine teeth, cheek pouches, a short tail, and naked callosities on the buttocks.
WordNet
n : large terrestrial monkeys having doglike muzzles
Wikipedia
Baboon is a rock band originally from Denton, Texas.
The band formed in 1991. Their latest studio album, titled Baboon, was released on October 10, 2006.
Baboon appeared on an episode of Walker, Texas Ranger titled " Hall of Fame" in 1996. The band and their music were a key point in the episode's plot.
In its early years, Baboon, Brutal Juice, and Caulk were known collectively in the Denton area as the "Fraternity of Noise." Baboon toured extensively, including a stint on the Skoal-sponsored R.O.A.R. Tour in 1997, along with acts such as Iggy Pop, The Reverend Horton Heat, The Bloodhound Gang, and Sponge. They also toured with Toadies, Brutal Juice, and Unwound.
Vocalist Andrew Huffstetler and guitarist Mike Rudnicki formed The Boom Boom Box in 2008 and released a self-titled EP later than year, and a full-length album, titled Until Your Eyes Get Used To The Darkness, through Kirtland Records in 2012.
A Baboon is a primate of the genus Papio.
Baboon may also refer to:
- the local name in Belize for the howler monkey.
- the baboon spider, an Old World Tarantula
- Baboon (band), a rock band from Denton, Texas and their self-titled 2006 album
- Serbian medieval term for heretics
- Baboon (short story collection), a 2006 short story collection by Danish author Naja Marie Aidt
Baboon is an album by Baboon. It was self-released in 2006. All songs were written by Baboon.
Baboon (Danish: Bavian) is a 2006 short story collection by Danish author Naja Marie Aidt. It was translated into English by Denise Newman in 2014.
Baboons are African and Arabian Old World monkeys belonging to the genus Papio, part of the subfamily Cercopithecinae. The five species are some of the largest non-hominoid members of the primate order; only the mandrill and the drill are larger. Previously, the closely related gelada (genus Theropithecus) and the two species (mandrill and drill) of genus Mandrillus were grouped in the same genus, and these Old World monkeys are still often referred to as baboons in everyday speech. They range in size and weight depending on species. The Guinea baboon is and weighs only , while the largest chacma baboon can be and weigh .
Usage examples of "baboon".
I am the greatest owl, monkey, baboon, rascal, oaf, ignoramus, blockhead, buffoon, or what you will.
You are fortunate in that you have access to an almost unlimited supply of cheap and entirely satisfactory laboratory animals in the shape of Papio ursinus, the chacma baboon, which is indigenous to South Africa and still occurs there in large numbers.
But before they could recover their wits sufficiently to run, the little painted wizard uttered such a string of cries and grunts, imitating horse and eagle and chacma baboon, at the same time prancing and flapping and scratching, that their terror turned to fascination.
Uninhabited by primates of any sort until five years earlier, it had at that time been turned over to a troop of chacma baboons, to do with as they pleased.
The idea of Harold steering his mother from the baboons to the sea lions, from the coypu pond to the zebra house, pulling her gently out of the way of supercilious camels with sticky children on their backs was, to Nell, infinitely touching.
White Sphinx Project, in fact, I had familiarized myself with dinotheres, giant baboons, australopithecines, and most of their extinct fellow travelers.
I faced the hairless, bright red chest of the male gelada baboon - powerful, savage bandit from the highland plains of Abyssinia.
But the gelada baboon must have gathered together the bits of my pipe and slinked through the back-wall door, losing itself in the parapets and split-level avenues of the Monkey Complex.
Schrutt cursing the gelada baboon, his voice on a pitch with the shriller monkeys, his key loop ringing the terrace bars like a gong.
Basically a giant Gelada baboon, with material from certain breeds of dog, from the hunting cats, and from human stock for intelligence, vocal cords, and a fully opposable thumb.
We saw baboons abreast of us, unruffled ostriches sprinting into thorn brakes, and giraffids moseying along in self-possessed pairs.
Most of the cages held Hamadryas baboons, thousands of miles from the African jungles where they were born.
This is the way Western civilization would end, I thought bitterly, people worshiping in front of big dicks, like hamadryas baboons.
She beckoned to one of the creatures, a thing with long silken hair and garishly colored ischial callosities that resembled a cross between a dwarf mastodon and a mandrill baboon.
Remembering what Slick had said about the baboon act, Lippy put on a facial expression that would have frightened King Kong.