hamadryas

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a large baboon native to northeastern Africa and the Arabian Peninsula, whose adult males have a silvery mantle

   The hamadryas lives in troops that forage across rocky, semi-arid country.

The common name comes from the scientific species name Papio hamadryas. Scientific Latin Hamadryas was borrowed from Ancient Greek Hamadryas, the name of a hamadryad or tree nymph, formed from hama ("together") + drys ("tree, oak").

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