baboon

baboon
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
  2. Genera Papio and Mandrillus, family Cercopithecidae: several species, including the drill and mandrill
    猴科,狒狒属和山魈属:数种,包括(西非的)鬼狒和山魈
    ■an ugly or uncouth person
    丑陋的人;粗野的人
语源
  1. Middle English (denoting a grotesque figure used in architecture): from Old French babuin or medieval Latin babewynus, perhaps from Old French baboue 'muzzle, grimace'
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