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from The Century Dictionary.

  • The lemuroids, prosimians, or lemurs at large, a suborder of Primates, distinguished from Anthropoidea; the strepsirrhine quadrumanous mammals.
  • A superfamily of Prosimiæ, containing the families Lemuridæ and Tarsiidæ, together contrasted with the Daubentonioidea.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun plural (Zoöl.) A suborder of primates, including the lemurs, the aye-aye, and allied species.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun Lemuridae; Lorisidae; Daubentoniidae; Indriidae; used in some classifications instead of Prosimii; in others considered a subdivision of Prosimii

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