Lemur vs Sloth - What's the difference?
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(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
(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
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(uncountable) Laziness; slowness in the mindset; disinclination to action or labour.
* Milton
* Franklin
(countable) A herbivorous, arboreal South American mammal of the families Megalonychidae and Bradypodidae, noted for its slowness and inactivity.
(rare) A collective term for a group of bears.
As nouns the difference between lemur and sloth
is that lemur is any strepsirrhine primate of the infraorder Lemuriformes, superfamily Lemuroidea, native only to Madagascar and some surrounding islands while sloth is laziness; slowness in the mindset; disinclination to action or labour.As a verb sloth is
to be idle.lemur
Noun
(en noun)citation, publisher=Laurentius Salvius , location=Stockholm, Sweden , pages=29–30 , pageurl=http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/726922 }}
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 lemurSee also
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sloth
English
(wikipedia sloth)Alternative forms
* sloath, slowth (obsolete)Noun
- [They] change their course to pleasure, ease, and sloth .
- Sloth , like rust, consumes faster than labour wears.