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lemurs

Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for lemurs.

Editorial note

Most, kangaroos and some lemurs in your list being the exception, do not move around primarily as bipeds.

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Quick take

Any strepsirrhine primate of the superfamily Lemuroidea, native only to Madagascar and some surrounding islands.

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of lemurs gathered in one view.

noun

Any strepsirrhine primate of the superfamily Lemuroidea, native only to Madagascar and some surrounding islands.

noun

Any of the genus Lemur, represented by the ring-tailed lemur (Lemur catta).

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for lemurs.

noun

Any strepsirrhine primate of the superfamily Lemuroidea, native only to Madagascar and some surrounding islands.

noun

Any of the genus Lemur, represented by the ring-tailed lemur (Lemur catta).

Example sentences

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Most, kangaroos and some lemurs in your list being the exception, do not move around primarily as bipeds.

2

If you are hung up on the fact that lemurs still exist, use the word prosimians instead.

3

The red-tailed sportive lemur (Lepilemur ruficaudatus), or red-tailed weasel lemur, is native to Madagascar like all lemurs.

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It turns out it is usually spelled fossa, and as well as lemurs they also eat tenrecs.

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Now there are two holes: the hole between the early lemurs and Ida, and another between Ida and the primates.

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That would be like us traveling millions of years on a suicide mission to go see a planet of lemurs.

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The conclusion was incorrect, but it is true that Indian and Madagascar once were connected and did exchange fauna, including lemurs.

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That said, it is likely that you do have a hell of a lot in common with ancient lemurs, at least DNA wise.

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We care much more about an animal's biological/genetic similarity to ourselves, which is why people are comfortable eating octopuses but not lemurs, even though octopuses are much better problem solvers and lemurs are relatively dumb.

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Before, there was only one hole (between the early lemurs and primates).

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And elephant birds and giant lemurs in Madagascar, after humans arrived.

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I actually really like the kinds of science education and literacy projects featured on Microryza's homepage, and fun ecology projects involving pandas and lemurs.

Quote examples

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I first considered "a conspiracy" like with lemurs, but eventually felt that "unkindness" was more appropriate.

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This discussion is being monitored and steered by nameless PR companies doing paid damage control for multinational companies that rhyme with the expressions ”YouDont” and ”Lemurs”.

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You'll also notice the same thing happens for other non-existent emojis that sound like they should exist: dragonflies, lemurs, possums, blackberries - even Claude 4.5 will start off by saying "Yes!" and then correcting itself.

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[The] findings show that they are close relatives of primates and colugos -- flying lemurs native to Southeast Asia -- making them fairly close relatives of humans." "Two phylogenetic analyses performed to clarify the species' evolutionary relationships confirmed that mixodectids were euarchontans, a group of mammals that consists of treeshrews, primates, and colugos.

Proper noun examples

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Our species has evolved for at least 50 million years to sleep on tree tops in nests for the full night within a colony, viz all higher primates and many lesser ones all the way down to Lemurs.

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use lemurs in a sentence?

Most, kangaroos and some lemurs in your list being the exception, do not move around primarily as bipeds.

What does lemurs mean?

Any strepsirrhine primate of the superfamily Lemuroidea, native only to Madagascar and some surrounding islands.

What part of speech is lemurs?

lemurs is commonly used as noun.