Definition of Lemurine

1. pertaining to a lemur [adj] - See also: lemur

Medical Definition of Lemurine

1. Lemuroid. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Lemurine

lemons
lemonwood
lemonwood tree
lemonwoods
lemony
lemoynite
lempira
lempiras
lemur
lemures
lemurian
lemurians
lemurid
lemuridae
lemurids
lemurine (current term)
lemurines
lemurlike
lemuroid
lemuroidea
lemuroids
lemurs
lenaite
lenalidomide
lend
lend-lease
lend a hand
lend a helping hand
lend an ear
lend itself to

Literary usage of Lemurine

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Stoddart's Encyclopaedia Americana: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and by American supplement, Encyclopaedia britannica (1883)
"The scrotum is sessile; the ¡ни- t'orms with a lemurine ... external characters of the aye-aye fully bear <>'¡t the lemurine affinity which the anatomical ..."

2. Report of the Annual Meeting (1863)
"ordinary lemurine condition. That the same finger should be the seat of the wasting influences on both hands and in all Aye-ayes strikes one as a result ..."

3. Geological Magazine by Henry Woodward (1900)
"... as distinguished from the monkeys, it certainly is a more primitive feature than the presence of a bony septum. And so are the lemurine features of the ..."

4. The Cambridge Natural History by Sidney Frederick Harmer, Arthur Everett Shipley (1902)
"This small animal has a lemurine face with huge orbits. It has a pre- molar less than ... Professor Scott suggests their lemurine or at ..."

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