From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary EnglishRelated topics: Animalsbaboonba‧boon /bəˈbuːn $ bæ-/ noun [countable]
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HBAa large monkey that lives in Africa and South AsiaExamples from the Corpusbaboon• He's got all this thick black hair like a baboon.• Presumably, these relatively open habitatsfavored larger groups as they did for chimps and baboons, the two other open-country primates.• There was the wig, too, mixedyak and baboon hair and syntheticfibers.• They can also help one another to defeat an attack by rivalmalebaboons that are attempting to take over their sharedfemales.• But unlike the peripheralbaboons, who are physically controlled by the dominant ones, the peripheral men are not powerless.• Since receiving the baboonmarrow, Getty has had moderate increases in his immunecell numbers, Deeks said.• Young baboons are reared in social units of complexstructure.Originbaboon(1400-1500)Frenchbabouin, from baboue"ugly face"