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Mandrill   Listen
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mandrill  n.  (Zool.) A large West African baboon (Papio sphinx syn. Mandrillus sphinx, formerly Cynocephalus mormon syn. Papio mormon). The adult male has, on the sides of the nose, large, naked, grooved swellings, conspicuously striped with blue and red. It is an endangered species.






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"Mandrill" Quotes from Famous Books



... last to the improvement of the lathe,—in his opinion the master-machine, the life and soul of engine-turning, of which the planing, screw-cutting, and other machines in common use, are but modifications. In one of the early lathes which he contrived and made, the mandrill was nine inches in diameter; it was driven by wheel-gearing like a crane motion, and adapted to different speeds. Some of his friends, on first looking at it, said he was going "too fast;" but he lived to see work ...
— Industrial Biography - Iron Workers and Tool Makers • Samuel Smiles



Words linked to "Mandrill" :   baboon, genus Mandrillus, Mandrillus sphinx



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