BABOON

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Meaning:

Large terrestrial monkeys having doglike muzzles

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Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("baboon" is a kind of...):

catarrhine; Old World monkey (of Africa or Arabia or Asia; having nonprehensile tails and nostrils close together)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "baboon"):

chacma; chacma baboon; Papio ursinus (greyish baboon of southern and eastern Africa)

mandrill; Mandrillus sphinx (baboon of west Africa with a bright red and blue muzzle and blue hindquarters)

drill; Mandrillus leucophaeus (similar to the mandrill but smaller and less brightly colored)