lemur

Etymology
From. The name was originally given to the (then ) in 1754 by Carl Linnaeus. According to Linnaeus, the name was selected because of the nocturnal activity and slow movements of the red slender loris. In 1758, Linnaeus added, among others, the  to the genus Lemur. All other species, including the red slender loris, were eventually moved to other genera. In time, the word became the colloquial name for all primates endemic to Madagascar.

Noun

 * 1)  Any strepsirrhine primate of the infraorder, superfamily , native only to Madagascar and some surrounding islands.
 * 2) Any of the genus Lemur, represented by the ring-tailed lemur.


 * 1)  A loris (, now ), predating the 10th edition of Systema Naturæ.

Usage notes
The taxonomy is currently disputed, see

Translations

 * Afrikaans: lemur
 * Arabic: لِيمُور
 * Armenian:
 * Asturian: llémur, lémur
 * Basque:
 * Belarusian: лему́р
 * Bengali: লেমুর
 * Catalan: lèmur,
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech:
 * Dutch: lemur
 * Esperanto: lemuro
 * Finnish:, makimainen puoliapina
 * French: ,
 * Galician: lémur, lémure
 * German: ,
 * Hebrew: לֶמוּר
 * Hindi: लीमर
 * Hungarian: ,
 * Icelandic: lemúr
 * Indonesian:
 * Interlingua: lemure
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: ,
 * Korean: 여우원숭이
 * Lithuanian: lemūras
 * Malagasy: ,
 * Maori: rīmā
 * Norwegian: lemur
 * Occitan: lemur
 * Persian:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:, lemurian
 * Russian:
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: лѐмӯр
 * Roman:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: lemur
 * Thai: ลีเมอร์
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian: лему́р
 * Vietnamese: vượn cáo
 * Yiddish: פֿוּקס מאַלפּע

Etymology

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Noun

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Etymology
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