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Definition: Mandrill |
MandrillNoun1. Baboon of west Africa with red and blue muzzle and hindquarters. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "mandrill" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1871. (references) |
Etymology: Mandrill \Man"drill\, noun. [Compare to the French expression mandrille, Spanish mandril, Italian mandrillo; probably the native name in Africa. Compare to Drill an ape.]. (Websters 1913) |
Synonym: MandrillSynonym: Mandrillus sphinx (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Mandrill |
| English words defined with "mandrill": Cercopithecidae ♦ drill ♦ family Cercopithecidae ♦ Mandrillus leucophaeus. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Mandrill" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. French (mandrill), German (mandrill), Hungarian (drill, mandrill), Swedish (mandrill). |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
mandrill | 229 |
mandrill baboon | 5 |
mandrill picture | 4 |
mandrill monkey | 3 |
mandrill photo | 2 |
mandrill muffin | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "mandrill"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | الميمون قرد. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | кирка (mandrel, pecker, pick, pickax), мандрил, пробой (drift, mandrel, pricker). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | mandril. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | mandrill. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Mandrill. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | μανδρίλος, πίθηκοσ κυνοκέφαλοσ. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | שחיל, ציר (axis, axle, hinge, pin, pivot, pole, spindle). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | mandrill (drill). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | mandrillo. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | マンクス猫 (apartment house, large apartment, Manchester, mandarin, mandarin collar, Mandelbrot, mango, mangosteen, mangrove, manteau, mantis, mantle, mantlepiece, man-to-man, man-to-man defense, Manx cat, mongoose, monthly, Munshingwear, one-to-one, paying off one's entire credit card balance monthly). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | マントリル . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | baboon mooar. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | andrillmay mandril (arbor, arbour, broach, chuck, connector, core, drift, mandrel, mandril, mane, paper core, reamer, roasting jack, rotating blowpipe, rotating cylinder, sliding splined shaft), veio de torno (mandril). (various references) mandril. (various references) мандрил. (various references) mandril (mandril). (various references) mandril (Arbor, baboon, chuck, connector, core, drift, former, mandrel, mandril, paper core, pod, rotating blowpipe, rotating cylinder, sliding splined shaft, spool, tape spool). (various references) mandrill. (various references) mandril, vahşi afrika maymunu. (various references) мандрил (mandril). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | Papio sphinx. (various references) |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "mandrill": mandrills. (additional references) | |
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"Mandrill" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Canderbill, Handrill, Mandji, mandrell, mandril, mantrill, Myndmill, Sandrelli. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-i-l-l-m-n-r" | |
-1 letter: mandril, rimland. | |
-2 letters: aldrin, marlin. | |
-3 letters: dinar, drail, drain, drill, inarm, laird, liard, lidar, liman, maill, nadir, nidal, ranid. | |
-4 letters: airn, amid, amin, amir, anil, arid, aril, damn, darn, dial, dill, dirl, dram, laid, lain, lair, land, lard, lari, liar, lima, limn, lira, maid, mail, main, mair, mall, marl, mild, mill, mina, mind, nail, nard, nill, raid, rail, rain, rami, rand, rani, rial, rill, rind. | |
-5 letters: aid, ail, aim, ain, air, all, ami, and, ani, arm, dal, dam, dim, din, ill, lad, lam, lar, lid, lin, mad, man, mar, mid, mil, mir, nam, nil, nim, rad, ram, ran, ria, rid, rim, rin. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-d-i-l-l-m-n-r" | |
+1 letter: mandrills. | |
+3 letters: landlordism, milliradian. | |
+4 letters: landlordisms, meridionally, milliradians. | |
+5 letters: detrimentally, intradermally. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4D 61 6E 64 72 69 6C 6C |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-- .- -. -.. .-. .. .-.. .-.. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001101 01100001 01101110 01100100 01110010 01101001 01101100 01101100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)M a n d r i l l |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004D 0061 006E 0064 0072 0069 006C 006C |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)4767807084757878 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Images: Slideshow 6. Expressions: Internet 7. Translations: Modern 8. Translations: Ancient | 9. Derivations 10. Anagrams 11. Orthography 12. Bibliography |
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