| 单词 | howling baboon |
| 释义 | > as lemmashowling baboon 1. That howls; that utters or produces a prolonged wailing sound. Spec. howling baboon, howling monkey = howler n. 1b. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > by noises > voice or sound made by animal > [adjective] > that howls or whines whining15.. yowlingc1590 plainful1598 whimpering1598 howlinga1605 whinging1720 wailful1818 ululating1894 the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > unpleasant quality > mournful or plaintive sound > [adjective] > howl, wail, or whine wailinga1577 howlinga1605 wailful1818 honing1837 wailsome1891 the world > animals > mammals > order Primates > suborder Anthropoidea (higher primates) > [noun] > family Cebidae > genus Alouatta (howler monkey) guariba1753 howling monkey1769 warine1774 alouatte1779 howler monkey1800 araguato1852 congo ape1859 red howler1865 Congo monkey1874 ursine howler1884 Stentor1891 a1605 Polwart Flyting with Montgomerie 195 Where howlring howlets aye doth hant. 1668 H. More Divine Dialogues (1713) iii. xix. 217 I believe you mean the howling Quakers, as uncivil as they are. 1769 E. Bancroft Ess. Nat. Hist. Guiana ii. 133 The Howling Baboons, as they are here called, seem to be the animals which are here described by Marcgrave, and which are called by the natives of Brasil, Guereba. 1769 E. Bancroft Ess. Nat. Hist. Guiana ii. 135 There is another Monkey, somewhat larger than the howling Monkey, which is covered with long reddish hair. 1813 W. Bingley Animal Biogr. (ed. 4) I. 86 (heading) The howling monkey. 1839 T. Beale Nat. Hist. Sperm Whale 285 Peals of thunder..followed by a howling blast of wind. 1847 W. B. Carpenter Zool.: Systematic Acct. I. §159 The Myceti, or Howling Monkeys. 1853 J. G. Wood Illustr. Nat. Hist. 21 The Howling Monkeys are larger and more clumsy than the Spider Monkeys. 1863 H. W. Bates Naturalist on River Amazons I. ii. 72 Morning and evening the howling monkeys make a most fearful and harrowing noise. 1877 A. B. Edwards Thousand Miles up Nile ii. 37 And now, their guttural chorus audible long before they arrived in sight, came the howling dervishes. 1924 C. W. Domville-Fife Among Wild Tribes of Amazons viii. 121 On reaching camp..in the half light it was just possible to see the huddled and impaled body of a furry guaribas, or howling monkey (simia mycetes). 1959 Jrnl. Mammalogy 40 317 (title) Field observations on a howling monkey society. < as lemmas |
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