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Lemur n. (Zool.) One of a family (Lemuridae) of nocturnal mammals allied to the monkeys, but of small size, and having a sharp and foxlike muzzle, and large eyes. They feed upon birds, insects, and fruit, and are mostly natives of Madagascar and the neighboring islands, one genus (Galago) occurring in Africa. The slow lemur or kukang of the East Indies is Nycticebus tardigradus. See Galago, Indris, and Colugo.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... the skin—are found to be made in very much the same sort of fashion. And if I were to make a transverse section of the Dog, I should find the same organs that I have already shown you as forming parts of the Horse. Well, here is another skeleton—that of a kind of Lemur—you see he has just the same bones; and if I were to make a transverse section of it, it would be just the same again. In your mind's eye turn him round, so as to put his backbone in a position inclined obliquely upwards and forwards, just as ...

— Lectures and Essays • T.H. Huxley

Words linked to "Lemur" : slender loris, woolly indris, Loris gracilis, indri, bush baby, Avahi laniger, Nycticebus tardigradua, angwantibo, Indri brevicaudatus, potto, Perodicticus potto, suborder Lemuroidea, golden potto, genus Lemur, flying lemur, primate, indris, ring-tailed lemur, slow loris, aye-aye, Lemuroidea, kinkajou, Lemur catta, Arctocebus calabarensis, Daubentonia madagascariensis, Indri indri, galago, bushbaby, Madagascar cat