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- adjective Resembling a
lemur or some aspect of one.
Etymologies
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Examples
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The earliest fossils of lemurlike ancestors come from Eocene strata in Europe and North America, dating back about sixty million years.
The Song of The Dodo David Quammen 2004
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Some of those lemurlike ancestors, evidently, also inhabited Africa.
The Song of The Dodo David Quammen 2004
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Possibly those lemurlike species suffered fatally from competition with monkeys.
The Song of The Dodo David Quammen 2004
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The earliest fossils of lemurlike ancestors come from Eocene strata in Europe and North America, dating back about sixty million years.
The Song of The Dodo David Quammen 2004
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Possibly those lemurlike species suffered fatally from competition with monkeys.
The Song of The Dodo David Quammen 2004
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Some of those lemurlike ancestors, evidently, also inhabited Africa.
The Song of The Dodo David Quammen 2004
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Still later, the lemurlike lineage died out on the African mainland and also disappeared from Europe and North America.
The Song of The Dodo David Quammen 2004
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Still later, the lemurlike lineage died out on the African mainland and also disappeared from Europe and North America.
The Song of The Dodo David Quammen 2004
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Wide, dark, lemurlike eyes stared up from a little triangle of nose and ears.
Firestorm Barr, Nevada 1996
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` lizardlike 'vulpine ` foxlike' lemurine ` lemurlike '
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