LEMUR

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does lemur mean? 

• LEMUR (noun)
  The noun LEMUR has 1 sense:

1. large-eyed arboreal prosimian having foxy faces and long furry tails

  Familiarity information: LEMUR used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• LEMUR (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Large-eyed arboreal prosimian having foxy faces and long furry tails

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("lemur" is a kind of...):

primate (any placental mammal of the order Primates; has good eyesight and flexible hands and feet)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "lemur"):

Lemur catta; Madagascar cat; ring-tailed lemur (small lemur having its tail barred with black)

aye-aye; Daubentonia madagascariensis (nocturnal lemur with long bony fingers and rodent-like incisor teeth closely related to the lemurs)

Loris gracilis; slender loris (slim-bodied lemur of southern India and Sri Lanka)

Nycticebus pygmaeus; Nycticebus tardigradua; slow loris (stocky lemur of southeastern Asia)

kinkajou; Perodicticus potto; potto; angwantibo; Arctocebus calabarensis; golden potto (a kind of lemur)

bush baby; bushbaby; galago (agile long-tailed nocturnal African lemur with dense woolly fur and large eyes and ears)

indri; Indri brevicaudatus; Indri indri; indris (large short-tailed lemur of Madagascar having thick silky fur in black and white and fawn)

Avahi laniger; woolly indris (nocturnal indris with thick grey-brown fur and a long tail)

Holonyms ("lemur" is a member of...):

Lemuroidea; suborder Lemuroidea (Lemuridae; Lorisidae; Daubentoniidae; Indriidae; used in some classifications instead of Prosimii; in others considered a subdivision of Prosimii)

 Context examples 

"Genital odors of ring-tailed lemurs provide honest information about an individual's absolute and relative MHC (Major Histocompatibility Complex) quality," write the researchers in a paper.

(Lemurs can smell whether a mate's immune genes are a good match, National Science Foundation)

Lemurs use these differences to find a good match.

(Lemurs can smell whether a mate's immune genes are a good match, National Science Foundation)

A study of lemur scents conducted by researchers at Duke University finds that an individual's distinctive body odor reflects genetic differences in its immune system and that other lemurs can detect these differences by smell.

(Lemurs can smell whether a mate's immune genes are a good match, National Science Foundation)