Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The common European kingfisher, Alcedo ispida.
- noun A large baboon, Cynocephalus hamadryas.
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The baboons are peculiar to Africa, and there are six well-known species of them: -- the common baboon of North Africa, the "papion" of the south and western coast, the "hamadryas" or "tartarin" of Abyssinia, the
The Bush Boys History and Adventures of a Cape Farmer and his Family Mayne Reid 1850
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