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Webster 1913 Edition

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Noun.

[Native name.]

A large species of African baboon (

Cynocephalus porcarius

); – called also

ursine baboon

[See Illust. of

chacma baboon

chacma ‎(plural chacmas)

A species of baboon from Southern Africa, Papio ursinus.
- 1908, H N Hutchinson, Charles John Cornish, The Standard Library of Natural History
  The chacmas live in companies in the kopjes, whence they descend to forage...
- 2006, Marty Essen, Cool Creatures, Hot Planet
  We sat quietly on the far side of the water as the chacmas treated us to a scene featuring a near-complete life cycle of activity.