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词汇 baboon
释义 baboon
noun[ C ]
uk /bəˈbuːn/ us /bəˈbuːn/
a type of large monkey, found in Africa and Asia, with a long, pointed face like a dog and large teeth狒狒
 
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SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Humans, apes & monkeys
anthropo-
anthropoid
ape
bonobo
bushbaby
hominid
hominin
homo
Homo sapiens
human
lemur
loris
macaque
mandrill
mankind
ring-tailed lemur
sapient
silverback
simian
spider monkey
Examples from literature

An old baboon peeped round the rocky edge and manifested no surprise, only indignation, at the intrusion of humanity, dead or alive, into his dominions. 
Baboons roared in the forests and dwelt in the hollow trunks. 
Certain of the baboon tribes which live among the rocks of high mountains and cliffs, if pursued by enemies, protect themselves by ingeniously rolling immense stones down upon their foes. 
The leopard is the great enemy of the baboons. 
The old Egyptians paid deep homage to the sacred apes, which belong to the baboon tribe, and had them represented on their monuments as judges in the kingdom of death. 

baboon | American Dictionary


baboon
noun[ C ]
us/bæˈbun/
a primate (= animal that is most like humans) found in Africa and southern Asia that has a long nose, short tail, and is related to monkeys

Examples of baboon


baboon
Genetics of monoamine metabolites in baboons : overlapping sets of genes influence levels of 5-hydroxyindolacetic acid, 3-hydroxy-4-methoxyphenylglycol, and homovanillic acid.
We expected that a large frugivore like the olive baboon disperses seeds of a wide range of sizes undamaged, including large ones.
Climatic determinants of diet and foraging behaviour in baboons.
Trade-offs between foraging and predation risks determine habitat use in a desert baboon population.
Trade-offs between foraging and predation risk determine habitat use in a desert baboon population.
The baboon parasites are polymorphic at several loci, while single alleles have become fixed in the murine population.
Like baboons, our ancestors were aggressive and competitive, and social life was based on a dominance hierarchy.
We also saw and heard large numbers of baboons.
Our relatively uninformed search and decisionmaking process yielded baboons that were good enough.
In three dark-adapted baboon ganglion cells, light-evoked responses were analyzed using a 30-s full-field stimulus while recording continuously, as described above for maintained activity.
When the hunters catch up with them, the baboons imitate their gestures, then climb up into the trees and escape.
The poet's images are primal and not technologised at all, evoking local colour through such words as baboon and monkey.
If we note the features not added, we can say that the images do not depict giraffe, elephant, baboon, aardvark and so on.
These experiences are the source of "self-esteem" in humans and an "animal selfconcept" in baboons.
The relative length of gestation and the relative size of eyes from largest to smallest is humans baboons macaque.
These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors.
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