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s | lemur |

As a letter s

is the letter s with a.

As a noun lemur is

lemur.

s

Translingual

{{Basic Latin character info, previous=r, next=t, image= (wikipedia s)

Letter

  • The nineteenth letter of the .

    • Symbol

    (wikipedia) (mul-symbol)
  • voiceless alveolar fricative
  • Symbol for second , an SI unit of measurement of time.

    • See also

    (Latn-script) * * (esh) * (dze) * {{Letter , page=S , NATO=Sierra , Morse=··· , Character=S , Braille=? }} Image:Latin S.png, Capital and lowercase versions of S , in normal and italic type Image:Fraktur letter S.png, Uppercase and lowercase S in Fraktur Symbols for SI units ----

    lemur

    English

    (wikipedia lemur) (wikispecies)

    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 ().
  • * {{quote-book
    • , 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 .
  • * {{quote-book
    • , 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.] }}

    Usage notes

    The taxonomy is currently disputed, see .

    Derived terms

    * Archaeolemur * Archaeolemuridae * bamboo lemur * dwarf lemur * Eulemur * fork-marked lemur * giant mouse lemur * hairy-eared dwarf lemur * Hapalemur * Lemuridae * lemuriform * Lemuriformes * lemuroid * Lemuroidea * Lepilemur * Lepilemuridae * mouse lemur * Pachylemur * ring-tailed lemur * ruffed lemur * sportive lemur * subfossil lemur * true lemur * woolly lemur

    Related terms

    * Lemuria

    See also

    *

    References

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