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Lemurine   Listen
adjective
Lemurine, Lemuridous  adj.  (Zool.) Lemuroid.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Lemurine" Quotes from Famous Books



... mammalia. This is undoubtedly an indication of great antiquity. The peculiar type which has since reached so high a development must have branched off the great mammalian stock at a very remote epoch, certainly far back in the Secondary period, since in the Eocene we find lemurs and lemurine monkeys already specialized. At this remoter period they were probably not separable from the insectivora, or (perhaps) from the ancestral marsupials. Even now we have one living form, the curious Galeopithecus ...
— Scientific American Supplement, No. 344, August 5, 1882 • Various

... V. The sentence referred to seems to be the following (page 95): "We know of no changes in progress in the Island of Madagascar, necessitating a special quest of wood-boring larvae by small quadrupeds of the Lemurine or Sciurine types of organisation.') paper (I think) that he sneers at the manner in which he supposes that we should account for the structure of its limbs; and asks how we know that certain insects had increased in the Madagascar forests. ...
— More Letters of Charles Darwin - Volume I (of II) • Charles Darwin



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