Usually means: Large monkey with colorful face.
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General (29 matching dictionaries)
  1. baboon: Merriam-Webster
  2. baboon: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. baboon: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. baboon: Collins English Dictionary
  5. baboon: Vocabulary.com
  6. Baboon, baboon: Wordnik
  7. baboon: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. baboon: Wiktionary
  9. baboon: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. baboon: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. baboon: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Baboon, baboon: Dictionary.com
  13. baboon: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. baboon: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Baboon (band), Baboon (disambiguation), Baboon (short story collection), Baboon: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Baboon: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. baboon: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. baboon: Rhymezone
  19. Baboon: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. baboon: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. Baboon: E Cobham Brewer, The Reader's Handbook
  22. baboon: FreeDictionary.org
  23. baboon: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. baboon: TheFreeDictionary.com
  25. baboon: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  26. baboon: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  27. baboon: Merriam-Webster

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. baboon: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
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  2. baboon: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Anthropology dictionary (No longer online)

Slang (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Baboon (offensive): Racial Slur Database
  2. baboon: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  3. baboon: English slang and colloquialisms used in the United Kingdom

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Definitions from Wiktionary (baboon)

▸ noun:  An Old World monkey of the genus Papio, having dog-like muzzles and large canine teeth, cheek pouches, a short tail, and naked callosities on the buttocks. [from 13th c.]
▸ noun:  (colloquial, derogatory) A foolish or boorish person.

Similar:
babion, babian, dog-faced baboon, primate, green monkey, talapoin, simian, macaque, babooness, macaco, more...

Opposite:
gibbon

Types:
chacma, papio, vervet, hamadryas, mangabey, gelada, mandrill, olive, more...

Phrases:
Hamadryas baboon, Chacma baboon, gelada baboon, olive baboon, Yellow baboon, more...

Adjectives:
male, old, female, young, big, large, faced, olive, yellow, wild, black

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Similar:
babion, babian, dog-faced baboon, primate, green monkey, talapoin, simian, macaque, babooness, macaco, more...

Opposite:
gibbon

Types:
chacma, papio, vervet, hamadryas, mangabey, gelada, mandrill, olive, more...

Phrases:
Hamadryas baboon, Chacma baboon, gelada baboon, olive baboon, Yellow baboon, lewis baboon, sacred baboon, Anubis baboon, baboon spider, dog-faced baboon, dog faced baboon, sphinx baboon, ursine baboon, more...

Adjectives:
male, old, female, young, big, large, faced, olive, yellow, wild, black

Colors:
    red,     brown,     olive,     gray,     tan, more...



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