Baboon meaning

Noun: Baboon

Pronunciation: (bu’boon)

Baboon meaning:

• A large African or Asian monkey
• Large terrestrial monkeys having dog like muzzles
• Any of a genus of large gregarious primates of Africa and south western Asia having a long square naked muzzle

Synonyms: old world monkey

Quotations: Eric Sargis: This skull is very different from a baboon skull.

Jeffrey Sharon : I had 37 lions and tigers, two chimpanzees, 10 or 12 baboons, a hundred big-horn rams, probably a hundred deer. Zoos would sell me this stuff or they’d trade.

Boone Picken: Chief executives, who themselves own few shares of their companies, have no more feeling for the average stockholder than they do for baboons in Africa.

Sample sentences:

• My friend looks like a baboon.
• Baboons are the most adaptable of the ground-dwelling primates, apart from humans.
• The olive baboon and the yellow baboon are famous and live in a wide variety of habitats.