Results for baboon

Definitions of baboon:

part of speech: noun

A monkey of the largest kind.

part of speech: noun

A species of large monkey, having a long face, dog- like tusks, large lips, and a short tail.

Usage examples for baboon:

• " I trust to your honours, my genlemens," remarked the beastly baboon in question, in a manner so apropos that I guessed him not entirely ignorant of German, after all. "It Happened in Egypt", C. N. Williamson A. M. Williamson

• The act of the baboon mentioned by Darwin, I believe, that examined the paws of the cat that had scratched it, and then deliberately bit off the nails, belongs to a different and to a higher order of conduct. "Ways of Nature", John Burroughs

• But loping easily along as his ancestors might have pursued a baboon or antelope, Shir K'han overtook the screaming human. "Deepfreeze", Robert Donald Locke

• With the Marquess, who resembles an irritable baboon I have little to do. "Anthony Lyveden", Dornford Yates