English▸ noun
1 a large Old World ground-dwelling monkey with a long doglike snout and large teeth.
Genera Papio and Mandrillus, family Cercopithecidae: several species, including the drill and mandrill. See also gelada.
– ORIGIN late Middle English (denoting a grotesque figure used in architecture): from Old French babuin, based on the repeated syllable ba, typical of a child's early speech..