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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A family of extinct Eocene mammals, having the dental formula of the existing lemurs, and in some respects approaching the Daubentoniidœ. There are several genera, as Mixodectes and Necrolemur, of North America and Europe. See cut at Necrolemur.

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