baboon
/bəˈbuːn/noun
1- a large Old World ground-dwelling monkey with a long doglike snout, large teeth, and naked callosities on buttocks. Baboons are social animals and live in troops狒狒。
1.1
- Genera Papio and Mandrillus, family Cercopithecidae: several species, including the drill and mandrill.狒狒属和山魈属, 猴科:数种, 包括(西非的)鬼狒和山魈。
1.2
- an ugly or uncouth person丑陋的人; 粗野的人。
词源
Middle English (denoting a grotesque figure used in architecture): from Old French babuin or medieval Latin babewynus, perhaps from Old French baboue 'muzzle, grimace'.