Definition: mandrill

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Source: WordNet (r) 1.7

mandrill
     n : baboon of west Africa with red and blue muzzle and
         hindquarters [syn: Mandrillus sphinx]

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Mandrill \Man"drill\, n. [Cf. F. mandrille, Sp. mandril, It.
   mandrillo; prob. the native name in Africa. Cf. Drill an
   ape.] (Zo["o]l.)
   a large West African baboon (Cynocephalus, or Papio,
   mormon). The adult male has, on the sides of the nose,
   large, naked, grooved swellings, conspicuously striped with
   blue and red.