Definitions for lemurs

lemurs le·mur

Spelling: [lee-mer]
IPA: /ˈli mər/

Lemurs is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 111 anagrams from letters in lemurs (elmrsu).

Definitions for lemurs

noun

  1. any of various small, arboreal, chiefly nocturnal mammals of the family Lemuridae, of Madagascar and the Comoro Islands, especially of the genus Lemur, usually having large eyes, a foxlike face, and woolly fur: most lemurs are endangered.

Origin of lemurs

1790-1800; New Latin, apparently special use of Latin lemurēs (plural) ghosts, specters

Examples for lemurs

In short, the lemur has a hand on each of its four limbs, and no feet at all.

Every night, from Yambuya to the plains, we had been troubled by harsh screams from the lemur.

In these two respects such animals as a lemur and a Rhinoceros occupy the extremes.

Aye-aye (ī-ī; Cheirŏmys madagascariensis), an animal of Madagascar, so called from its cry; now referred to the lemur family.

The skull is more like that of the Anthropoidea than is the skull of any other lemur.

Excepting the head and this finger, he closely resembles a lemur.

In lemur varius is a hard patch of black skin which may be the remnants of such a gland.

The lemur is nocturnal in its habits and noiseless in its movements.

There are also huge bats, an animal of the monkey tribe called the lemur, hedgehogs, and rabbits.

In lemur catta a more complete rudiment of a marsupial pouch is to be met with.

Word Value for lemurs
Scrable

7

Words with friends

10

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