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LEMUR
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Large-eyed arboreal prosimian having foxy faces and long furry tails
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("lemur" is a kind of...):
primate (any placental mammal of the order Primates; has good eyesight and flexible hands and feet)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "lemur"):
Lemur catta; Madagascar cat; ring-tailed lemur (small lemur having its tail barred with black)
aye-aye; Daubentonia madagascariensis (nocturnal lemur with long bony fingers and rodent-like incisor teeth closely related to the lemurs)
Loris gracilis; slender loris (slim-bodied lemur of southern India and Sri Lanka)
Nycticebus pygmaeus; Nycticebus tardigradua; slow loris (stocky lemur of southeastern Asia)
kinkajou; Perodicticus potto; potto; angwantibo; Arctocebus calabarensis; golden potto (a kind of lemur)
bush baby; bushbaby; galago (agile long-tailed nocturnal African lemur with dense woolly fur and large eyes and ears)
indri; Indri brevicaudatus; Indri indri; indris (large short-tailed lemur of Madagascar having thick silky fur in black and white and fawn)
Avahi laniger; woolly indris (nocturnal indris with thick grey-brown fur and a long tail)
Holonyms ("lemur" is a member of...):
Lemuroidea; suborder Lemuroidea (Lemuridae; Lorisidae; Daubentoniidae; Indriidae; used in some classifications instead of Prosimii; in others considered a subdivision of Prosimii)
