Noun

(en noun)

(colloquial) Any strepsirrhine primate of the infraorder Lemuriformes, superfamily Lemuroidea, native only to Madagascar and some surrounding islands.

The genus Lemur , represented by the ring-tailed lemur ().

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, year=1758 , author=Linnaeus, C. , title=Systema Naturæ , volume=1 , edition=10 citation , publisher=Laurentius Salvius , location=Stockholm, Sweden , pages=29–30 , pageurl=http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/726922 }}

(obsolete) The genus for a loris (), predating the 10th edition of Systema Naturæ .

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, year=1754 , author=Linnaeus, C. , title=Museum Adolphi Friderici Regis citation , publisher=Typographia Regia , location=Stockholm, Sweden , page=3–4 , pageurl=http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k972707/f36.image , passage="Lemures dixi hos, quod noctu imprimis obambulant, hominibus quodanmodo similes, & lento passu vagantur." , translation=[I call them lemurs , because they go around mainly by night, in a certain way similar to humans, and roam with a slow pace.] }}

Noun

(en-noun)

Any of several species of small, nocturnal and arboreal African primates, of the genus Galago , with a catlike head and very large, translucent eyes.

*1982 , (TC Boyle), Water Music , Penguin 2006, p. 146:

*:From the trees comes the doleful cry of the black-faced dioch, and the weary rustle of galagos creeping back to their nests after a meticulous night's prowl.