Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

olive baboon

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.71 in modern English

Syllables: olive ba-boon
IPA

18

Scrabble Score

11

Letters

2

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A subspecies of savannah baboon, Papio hamadryas anubis, found in highland areas of East Africa.

Example Sentences

"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 […]."

Etymology

From the greenish-grey colour of its fur.

Inflected Forms

olive baboons (plural)

Synonyms

Anubis baboon

Questions

What does olive baboon mean?: A subspecies of savannah baboon, Papio hamadryas anubis, found in highland areas of East Africa.
Where does olive baboon come from?: From the greenish-grey colour of its fur.

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