ALL meanings of hamadryas
- noun hamadryas A large baboon, Papio hamadryas, from northern Africa and Arabia, that was sacred in ancient Egypt. 1
- noun hamadryas a baboon, Papio (or Comopithecus) hamadryas, of Arabia and NE Africa, having long silvery hair on the head, neck, and chest: regarded as sacred by the ancient Egyptians: family Cercopithecidae 0