Meanings
plural olive baboons
- A subspecies of savannah baboon, Papio hamadryas anubis, found in highland areas of East Africa.
A study of Kenyan olive baboon troops by Margaret Crofoot and her team at the University of California, Davis, considered first the patterns made on a map by the animals' movements […].
2016 November, Richard Smyth, “Bird's-Eye Watching”, in Literary ReviewSynonyms: Anubis baboon
Synonyms & antonyms
nounA subspecies of savannah baboon, Papio hamadryas anubis, found in highland areas of East Africa.
Origin
From the greenish-grey colour of its fur.
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