Definition of Chacma baboon

1. Noun. Greyish baboon of southern and eastern Africa.

Exact synonyms: Chacma, Papio Ursinus
Generic synonyms: Baboon

Lexicographical Neighbors of Chacma Baboon

chacareras
chace
chaced
chaces
chacha
chachalaca
chachalacas
chachka
chachkas
chacing
chack
chacked
chacking
chacks
chacma
chacma baboon (current term)
chacmas
chaco
chacoes
chaconine
chaconines
chaconne
chaconnes
chacos
chacun à son goût
chadar
chadarim
chadars
chaddar

Literary usage of Chacma baboon

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Transactions of the Obstetrical Society of London: Vol. I-XLIX, for the Year by Obstetrical Society of London (1895)
"The discharge from the chacma baboon I was unable to obtain for examination, as the animal was very savage, but it was noticeable that the discharge was ..."

2. On Safari: Big Game Hunting in British East Africa, with Studies in Bird-life by Abel Chapman (1908)
"... I find that the baboons of British East Africa are of different species from the common dog-faced chacma baboon (Papio chacma) of South Africn. ..."

3. Journal of Anatomy and Physiology by Anatomical Society of Great Britain and Ireland (1890)
"... but because I happen to possess fourteen cerebral hemispheres taken from the chacma baboon, and the occasional variations which one meets in the ..."

4. The Cambridge Natural History by Sidney Frederick Harmer, Arthur Everett Shipley (1902)
"... maimon\ has blue ridges on the muzzle, the bridge of the nose being red. The animal lives in herds, and is ferocious and omnivorous. The chacma baboon ..."

5. The Popular Science Monthly (1889)
"One of his temporary playmates, a pot-bellied young chacma baboon, aggravated his unpopularity by an incurable penchant, for peculation; but the occasional ..."

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