Baboon vs Cacoon - What's the difference?
baboon | cacoon |
An Old World monkey of the genus Papio , having dog-like muzzles and large canine teeth, cheek pouches, a short tail, and naked callosities on the buttocks.
* 1971 : Philip José Farmer, Down in the Black Gang: and others; a story collection ,
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The bean-like seed of a tropical vine (Entada rheedii ), used as a hallucinogen and in traditional medicine, and made into jewelry.
(Webster 1913)
As nouns the difference between baboon and cacoon
is that baboon is an old world monkey of the genus papio , having dog-like muzzles and large canine teeth, cheek pouches, a short tail, and naked callosities on the buttocks while cacoon is the bean-like seed of a tropical vine (entada rheedii ), used as a hallucinogen and in traditional medicine, and made into jewelry.baboon
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(wikipedia baboon)Alternative forms
* babian, babion * ** babewyne ** baboyne * ** babewen ** babewin ** babewyn ** babwen ** babwyn ** baubyn * ** baboon ** baboone ** babound ** baboune ** baboyn ** babwyne * ** baboon ** baboone ** baboune * ** baboonNoun
(en noun)page 79(Nelson Doubleday)
- Mix swallowed the comment he wanted to make, that the council hall stank like a congress of baboons . But he was in no position to insult his host, nor should he. The man was only expressing the attitude of his time.
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