Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A genus of loris of the family Lemuridæ and the subfamily Lorisinæ or Nycticebinæ, including the slow loris, as Nycticebus tardigradus, of the East Indies. Also called
Stenops and Bradylemur.
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- noun a genus of Lorisidae
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Several primate species are found in these forests and include the threatened banded langur (Trachypithecus melalophus) and slow loris (Loris nycticebus), a small, nocturnal prosimian.
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The initial letter of a generic epithet must be uppercase. See Nycticebus.
September 18, 2011