lemur

About 0.14 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. noun Any strepsirrhine primate of the superfamily Lemuroidea, native only to Madagascar and some surrounding islands.
2. noun Any of the genus Lemur, represented by the ring-tailed lemur (Lemur catta).
3. noun A loris (Lemur tardigradus, now Loris tardigradus), predating the 10th edition of Systema Naturæ.

Similar words

mongoose ruffed lemurid lemuriform lemuroid lepilemurid sportive lemur lemurine mouse lemur koala lemur

Often followed by

catta and fulvus species is macaco social mongoz in

Word family

lemurs