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Primate vs Lemuroid - What's the difference?

primate | lemuroid |

As nouns the difference between primate and lemuroid

is that primate is a mammal of the order Primates, including simians and prosimians while lemuroid is a member of the Lemuroidea superfamily of strepsirrhine primates, including lemurs.

As an adjective lemuroid is

of or relating to the primate superfamily Lemuroidea (lemurs.

primate

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) primate.

Noun

(en noun)
  • (zoology) A mammal of the order Primates , including simians and prosimians.
    • ''Primates range from lemurs to gorillas
  • (informal) A simian anthropoid; an ape, human or monkey.
    • Hyponyms
    * See also * ape * aye-aye * capuchin * douroucouli * entrina * exarch * galago * gibbon * great ape * howler monkey * human, human being * indri * lemur * loris * marmoset * monkey * night monkey * owl monkey * patriarch * potto * saki * simian * spider monkey * squirrel monkey * tamarin * tarsier * titi * uakari * woolly monkey

    Etymology 2

    (English (m)). Compare (m), of similar derivation and meaning.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (ecclesiastical) In the Catholic Church, a rare title conferred to or claimed by the sees of certain archbishops, or the highest-ranking bishop of a present or historical, usually political circumscription.
  • (ecclesiastical) In the Anglican Church, an archbishop, or the highest-ranking bishop of an ecclesiastic province.

    • Derived terms

    * Primates * primateship * Primate of All England * Primate of England * Primate of the Gauls

    Related terms

    * primatial * (l)

    See also

    * (l) ----

    lemuroid

    English

    (wikipedia lemuroid) (lemuroidea) (Lemuroidea)

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Of or relating to the primate superfamily Lemuroidea (lemurs)
  • * {{quote-book
    • , year=2006 , author=Kenneth David Rose , title=The Beginning of the Age of Mammals citation , isbn=9780801884726 , page=186 , passage=A few recent discoveries, however, expand the temporal range of both lemuroid and lorisoid primates back to the early Tertiary.}}
  • * {{quote-book
    • , year=1999 , author=Ian D. Hume , title=Marsupial nutrition citation , isbn=9780521595551 , page=195 , passage=The lemuroid dentition is also closely similar to that of the greater glider in having a greater number of cutting edges on the upper molars compared with the common ringtail.}}
  • * {{quote-book
    • , year=1980 , author=William Diller Matthew, , editor=Stephen J. Gould , title=Outline and general principles of the history of life , chapter=Lemurs Monkeys Apes and Man citation , isbn=9780405127199 , page=222 , passage=1. In the Paleocene we find remains of small animals intermediate between the tree-shrews and the lemurs, and at the end of the Paleocene the first true Primates, small lemuroid forms.}}

    Synonyms

    * lemuridous * lemurine

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A member of the Lemuroidea superfamily of strepsirrhine primates, including lemurs
  • * {{quote-book
    • , year=1832 , author=Zoological society of London , title=Proceedings of the Zoological society of London (1832) , chapter=Mr. St. George Mivart On Microrhynchus. citation , page=155 , passage=In M. laniger the canine and most anterior premolar are more equal than in any other Lermuroid , or indeed than in any other Primate except Man.}}
  • * {{quote-book
    • , year=1977 , author=Philip Hershkovitz , title=Living New World monkeys (Platyrrhini) - with an introduction to Primates , volume=1 , chapter=4 Some Descriptive, Diagnostic, Quasi-diagnostic, and Primitive Mammalian Characters of Living Primates , section=Mammae citation , isbn=9780226327884 , page=18 , passage=Supernumary or vestigal mammae may occur anywhere along the mammary line extinding from axilla to groin. Among lemuroids , however (cf. Shultz 1948), usually one but frequently up to three well-developed mammary pairs are pectoral (including axial), one pair abdominal and one or two pairs inguinal.}}
  • * {{quote-book
    • , year=1987 , author=Russell L. Ciochon, John G. Fleagle , title=Primate evolution and human origins , chapter=10 Notes on the Cranial Anatomy of the Subfossil Malagasy Lemurs citation , isbn=9780202011752 , page=72 , passage=At a meeting of the Royal Society held on June 15, 1893, C.I. Forsyth Major descirbed the skull of an extinct Malagasy primate, the first to come to scientific attention (Major, 1894). Since that time, the subfossil remains of some six genera and 12 species of extinct lemuroids have been recovered in Madagascar, many of them represented by quite abundant material.}}
  • An animal that has the appearance or characteristics of a lemur

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