/jel"euh deuh, jeuh lah"-/ , n.
a large baboonlike cliff-dwelling monkey, Theropithecus gelada, native to mountains of Ethiopia, having a brown coat and, in the male, a luxuriant mane: an endangered species.
[ 1835-45; c'ällada; perh. akin to the Cushitic word for the baboon; cf. Oromo jaldeessa ]