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Definition of Lemuroid

1. a. Like or pertaining to the lemurs or the Lemuroidea.

Definition of Lemuroid

1. a lemur [n -S] - See also: lemur

Medical Definition of Lemuroid

1. Like or pertaining to the lemurs or the Lemuroidea. One of the Lemuroidea. Origin: Lemur. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

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Lexicographical Neighbors of Lemuroid

lempira lempiras lemur lemur lemures lemurian lemurians lemurid lemuridae Lemuridae

lemurine lemurine lemurines lemurlike lemuroid (current term) lemuroid (current term) lemuroidea Lemuroidea lemuroids lemurs

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Literary usage of Lemuroid

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1. Madagascar Before the Conquest: The Island, the Country, and the People by James Sibree (1896)
"... discoveries—Geology—Huge lemuroid—Link between apes and lemurs—Small hippopotamus—The ... lemuroid ..."

2. The Antananarvio Annual and Madagascar Magazine (1893)
"... in the fossil Mammalia of Samos and various European localities, and has been determined by him to be that of a gigantic form of fossil lemuroid, ..."

3. The Causes and Course of Organic Evolution: A Study of Bioenergics by John Muirhead Macfarlane (1918)
"But, for our immediate purpose, one line of early and apparently direct modification from marsupial ancestry was evidently the lemuroid, representatives of ..."

4. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1910)
"It is of course possible that these lemuroid characters are entirely due to convergent evolution, but the provisional conclusion is that the Tupaiidae are ..."

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