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Definition of Mandrills
1. mandrill [n] - See also: mandrill
Lexicographical Neighbors of Mandrills
Literary usage of Mandrills
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Animal Kingdom Arranged in Conformity with Its Organization by Georges Cuvier, Pierre André Latreille (1831)
"The mandrills, Of all the monkeys, have the longest muzzle (30°); their tail is
very short; they are brutal and ferocious; nose as in the preceding. ..."
2. Mammalia: Their Various Orders and Habits Popularly Illustrated by Typical by Louis Figuier, Guillaume Louis Figuier (1870)
"The mandrills are characterised in the first place by a very short tail, and in
the second, by deep wrinkles on each side of the nose, and which are more or ..."
3. Horse Stories and Stories of Other Animals: Experience of Two Boys in by Thomas Wallace Knox (1890)
"... What they Did—Interview with their Trainer— mandrills and their Peculiarities—The
Chacma and his Uses as a Watch-Dog— How Monkeys find Water—Differences ..."
4. Journal by Folk-Song Society (Great Britain) (1853)
"These engraved cylinders being hollow, iron mandrills are passed through their
... The engraved copper cylinders, fastened on their mandrills, ore placed at ..."
5. The Polar and Tropical Worlds: A Description of Man and Nature in the Polar by Georg Hartwig (1872)
"The short-tailed mandrills inhabit the west coast of Africa. ... The real baboons
are distinguished from the mandrills by a long tail, terminated by a tuft ..."
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