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from The Century Dictionary.

  • A group of primatial quadrumanous mammals, founded by Storr in 1780 on the genus Prosimia of Brisson, later called Strepsirrhini and Lemuroidea; the lemurs.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun plural (Zoöl.) Same as lemuroidea.

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