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UK
/lˈiːmɐ/
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[ US /ˈɫimɝ/ ]
[ US /ˈɫimɝ/ ]
NOUN
- large-eyed arboreal prosimian having foxy faces and long furry tails
How To Use lemur In A Sentence
- HARRIS: Or maybe I'll get -- it's what I would do with a lemur is the problem. CNN Transcript Apr 29, 2006
- As she frequently reminded them, they were now the endangered species, more vulnerable than the lemur and slow loris. RUSHING TO PARADISE
- Other chants, like Agnus dei: Qui pius ac mitis, were expanded, or “troped” with additional text and music, and it was perhaps as an educational gesture that Greek, Hebrew, and Galician words were added to the ancient double-versicle “prosa” Alleluia: Gratulemur et letemur. Archive 2009-04-01
- Only in recent decades have prosimians - a suborder of primates that includes lemurs, lorises, bushbabies, and tarsiers - begun to be studied systematically.
- And, naturally, most of the elements that made "Madagascar" all those millions are back, including lemur leader King Julien (Sacha Baron Cohen with a wittily un-peggable dialect), and the song -- the song -- "I Like to Move It. Top Stories - Google News
- Lake Alaotra is also home to the Alaotra lemur Hapalemur griseus alaotrensis [image at left]: the only primate that spends most of its life in marshland. Archive 2006-11-01
- Crowned sifaka lemurs are found only in Madagascar, and their survival is threatened by deforestation. ZooBorns
- Lemurs do not fully mature until they are two-and-a-half years old, and until then most of their time is spent clinging to their mother.
- Of course, the lemur is perhaps the most well-known: Big, previously unknown palm tree discovered! « Skulls in the Stars
- The Mongoose Lemur (scientific name Lemur mongoz) is not a mongoose at all, but a prosimian primate, a species of monkey and native only to Madagascar.