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Definition of Lemuroid
1. a. Like or pertaining to the lemurs or the Lemuroidea.
Definition of Lemuroid
1. Adjective. having the appearance or characteristics of a lemur ¹
2. Noun. A member of the Lemuroidea superfamily of strepsirrhine primates, including lemurs ¹
3. Noun. An animal that has the appearance or characteristics of a lemur ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Lemuroid
1. a lemur [n -S] - See also: lemur
Medical Definition of Lemuroid
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Lemuroid
Literary usage of Lemuroid
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Madagascar Before the Conquest: The Island, the Country, and the People by James Sibree (1896)
"... discoveries—Geology—Huge lemuroid—Link between apes and lemurs—Small hippopotamus—The
... lemuroid ..."
2. The Antananarvio Annual and Madagascar Magazine (1893)
"... in the fossil Mammalia of Samos and various European localities, and has been
determined by him to be that of a gigantic form of fossil lemuroid, ..."
3. The Causes and Course of Organic Evolution: A Study of Bioenergics by John Muirhead Macfarlane (1918)
"But, for our immediate purpose, one line of early and apparently direct modification
from marsupial ancestry was evidently the lemuroid, representatives of ..."
4. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1910)
"It is of course possible that these lemuroid characters are entirely due to
convergent evolution, but the provisional conclusion is that the Tupaiidae are ..."
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