Usually means: Primate, native to Madagascar, arboreal.
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  1. lemur: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. lemur: Merriam-Webster
  3. lemur: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. lemur: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. lemur: Collins English Dictionary
  6. lemur: Vocabulary.com
  7. Lemur, lemur: Wordnik
  8. lemur: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. lemur: Wiktionary
  10. lemur: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. lemur: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. lemur: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. Lemur, lemur: Dictionary.com
  14. lemur: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. Lemur (genus), Lemur: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Lemur: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. lemur: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. lemur: Rhymezone
  19. Lemur: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. lemur: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. lemur: FreeDictionary.org
  22. lemur: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. lemur: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. lemur: Encyclopedia

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  3. lemur: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. LEMUR: Acronym Finder

Science (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. lemur: LITTLE EXPLORERS(TM) Picture Dictionary
  2. lemur: Evolution Glossary
  3. LEMUR: A Dictionary of Quaternary Acronyms and Abbreviations

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  1. lemur: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (lemur)

noun:  (colloquial) Any strepsirrhine primate of the infraorder Lemuriformes, superfamily Lemuroidea, native only to Madagascar and some surrounding islands.
noun:  Any of the genus Lemur, represented by the ring-tailed lemur (Lemur catta).
noun:  (obsolete) A loris (Lemur tardigradus, now Loris tardigradus), predating the 10th edition of Systema Naturæ.

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