Crossword clues for chacma
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Chacma \Chac"ma\, n. [Native name.] A large species of African baboon ( Cynocephalus porcarius); -- called also ursine baboon.
Note: [See Illust. of Baboon.] [1913 Webster] ||
Wiktionary
n. A species of baboon from Southern Africa, (taxlink Papio ursinus species noshow=1).
WordNet
n. grayish baboon of southern and eastern Africa [syn: chacma baboon, Papio ursinus]
Wikipedia
Usage examples of "chacma".
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.
Here were a few bare, rocky faces such as the chacma favors for sleeping places.
Four months later, disaster struck when a coked-up podiatrist from Ann Arbor, Michigan, jumped a fence and attempted to leg-wrestle a male chacma baboon.