English > lemur: 1 sense > noun 1, animal| Meaning | large-eyed arboreal prosimian having foxy faces and long furry tails. |
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| Member of | Lemuroidea, suborder Lemuroidea | Lemuridae |
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| Narrower | Madagascar cat, ring-tailed lemur, Lemur catta | small lemur having its tail barred with black |
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| angwantibo, golden potto, Arctocebus calabarensis | A kind of lemur |
| aye-aye, Daubentonia madagascariensis | nocturnal lemur with long bony fingers and rodent-like incisor teeth closely related to the lemurs |
| galago, bushbaby, bush baby | agile long-tailed nocturnal African lemur with dense woolly fur and large eyes and ears |
| indri, indris, Indri indri, Indri brevicaudatus | large short-tailed lemur of Madagascar / Madagascar having thick silky fur in black and white and fawn |
| potto, kinkajou, Perodicticus potto | A kind of lemur |
| slender loris, Loris gracilis | slim-bodied lemur of southern India and Sri Lanka |
| slow loris, Nycticebus tardigradua, Nycticebus pygmaeus | Stocky lemur of southeastern Asia |
| woolly indris, Avahi laniger | nocturnal indris with thick grey-brown fur and a long tail |
| Broader | primate | Any placental mammal of the order Primates |
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| Spanish | lemuriformes, lemur, lémur |
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| Catalan | lèmur |
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