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lemur|ˈliːmə(r)|
Pl. lemurs, ‖ lemures |ˈlɛmjʊəriːz|.
[a. L. *lemur, pl. lemures.]
1. In Roman mythology: pl. The spirits of the departed.
[1555Eden Decades 26 In these they graue the lyuely Images of such phantasies as they suppose they see walke by night which the Antiquitie cauled Lemures.] c1580J. Jeffere Bugbears iii. iii. in Archiv Stud. neu. Spr. (1897) 68 Harpyes, Gogmagogs, lemures. 1629Milton Nativity 191 The Lars and Lemures moan with midnight plaint. 1657H. Pinnell Philos. Ref. 26 To the Earth doe belong Gnoms, Lemurs, Sylphs [etc.] 1834Lytton Pompeii iv. vi, Lest he beheld one of those grim lemures, who..haunted the threshold of the homes they formerly possessed.
2. Zool. A genus of nocturnal mammals of the family Lemuridæ, found chiefly in Madagascar, allied to the monkeys, but having a pointed muzzle like that of a fox; an animal of this genus.
1795tr. Thunberg's Cape Gd. Hope (ed. 2) II. 206 This species of Lemur somewhat resembles a cat, with its long tail, diversified with black and white ringlets. 1863Lyell Antiq. Man xxiv. 474 His order Primates..embraced not only the apes and lemurs, but the bats also. 1865Livingstone Zambesi x. 213 A little lemur was once seen to leap about from branch to branch. |