mandrill

Noun

mandrill (plural mandrills)

1. A primate, Mandrillus sphinx, with a colorful face and rump.
   • For the Mandrills live in society, and their bands are so powerful in point of numbers, and so crafty in point of management, that they are about as formidable neighbours as could be imagined.1865, John George Wood, The Illustrated Natural History: Mammalia, George Routledge and Sons, page 76
   • In both mandrills and drills, males have long muzzles with pronounced maxillary ridges and long tooth rows. Like baboons, mandrills and drills have forelimbs and hindlimbs of nearly equal length.1999, John G. Fleagle, Primate Adaptation and Evolution, 2nd edition, Elsevier (Academic Press), page 200