Crossword-Solution: PAPIO
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| AFRICAN dog-faced monkey | 3 answers |
| Baboon | 13 answers |
| AFRICAN monkey | 26 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
AERET
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with PAPIO (5)
The third sub-family of _Simiadae_ consists of the genera _Cercopithicus_, _Macacus_, and _Cynocephalus_, as generally accepted by modern zoologists, but Jerdon seems to have followed Ogilby in his classification, which merges the long-tailed Macaques into _Cercopithecus_, and substituting _Papio_ for the others.
The rhinoceros is remarkable for his breathing: he "hath a necke like unto a horsse and also the other parts of his body, but it is said to breath out aire which killeth men." But in this world of animals, which includes the Mantichora, the Sphinga, the Papio, and a monster alive "in the territory of the bishop of Salceburgh," the most interesting is the Lamia.
CHACMA, the Hottentot name of the Cape baboon, _Papio porcarius_, a species inhabiting the mountains of South Africa as far north as the Zambezi.
DRILL (_Papio leucophæus_), a large variety of baboon, smaller and less fierce than the mandrill, and like it a native of the coast of Guinea.
The genus _Cynocephalus_ (or _Papio_) includes the Baboons; and the scientific name indicates the Dog-like aspect of these animals, due to the projecting snout.