Lemurs [noun]

The lemurs reside at the Reniala Nature Reserve in southwest Madagascar.

The ruffed lemur is the largest of these curious animals, being about as big as a good-sized cat.

There are two lemur-like animals which are so extraordinary that each of them has been put into a family all by itself.

The aye-aye is a lemur, but it differs singularly from all its congeners, and still more from all apes.

Galeopithecus “or the flying Lemur” is mentioned in the corresponding discussion in the Origin, Ed.

Sem′i-an′thracite, coal intermediate between anthracite and semi-bituminous coal; Sem′i-ape, a lemur.

Mr Hooker at once recognised it as a flying lemur, the learned name for which is Galeo-pithecus.

The Australian kangaroos and wombats are a case in point—so is the lemur-like aye-aye of Madagascar (an insect eater).

The victim proved to be a huge lemur, an animal that looked like a cross between a monkey and a cat.

Lemur, the name given to that low family of monkeys, is from the plural Latin word lemures, meaning ghost or spectre.