nesopithecidæ love

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from The Century Dictionary.

  • A family of lemurs, based on a single species, Nesopithecus roberti. They have the orbital cavity open behind; the upper incisors oblique, the middle pair much enlarged; the upper canine with a basal cingulum; and the upper molars quadritubercular.

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