Definitions for mandrill

mandrill man·drill

Spelling: [man-dril]
IPA: /ˈmæn drɪl/

Mandrill is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 244 anagrams from letters in mandrill (adillmnr).

Definitions for mandrill

noun

  1. a large baboon, Mandrillus (or Papio) sphinx, of western Africa, the male of which has a face brightly marked with blue and scarlet and a muzzle that is ribbed: an endangered species.

Origin of mandrill

First recorded in 1735-45; man1 + drill4

Examples for mandrill

mandrill, man′dril, n. a large kind of baboon, a native of Western Africa.

This story of the mandrill may excuse this pendant of an episode.

The papio, the first baboon; the mandrill, the second; and the ouanderou, the third.

The mandrill's blue nose, for instance, already referred to,—can we rightly speak of this as 'ευπρεπειὰ'?

They include the chacma, drill, common baboon, and mandrill.

The mandrill, C. mormon (or maimon), has blue ridges on the muzzle, the bridge of the nose being red.

It sounds impossible, yet the mandrill has been known to do so.

One shudders to think of the mental humiliation that is daily experienced by the warthog and the mandrill.

Another interesting baboon is the mandrill, which one does not often see in captivity.

The mandrill has pouches on the sides of his cheeks, and callosities on his posteriors.

Word Value for mandrill
Scrable

11

Words with friends

15

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