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from The Century Dictionary.

  • A family of lemurs which contains extinct species of comparatively great size: based on bones from Pleistocene and cave deposits of Madagascar. Megaladapis insignis was as large as a donkey, and is surmised by A. S. Woodward to have been aquatic in its habits.

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