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CHACMA

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chac⋅ma

  [chak-muh]
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–noun
a large, brownish-gray baboon, Papio ursinus, of southern Africa.
Origin:
1825–35; (< D) < Khoikhoi, first recorded as chöachamma (1691)
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chac·ma   (chāk'mə)   
n.  A grayish-black baboon (Papio ursinus) of southern and eastern Africa.

[Possibly of Khokhoin origin.]
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
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