Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Any of various primates of the suborder Prosimii, which consists of the lemurs, lorises, and tarsiers.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Lemurine or lemuroid; strepsirrhine, as a lemur; of or pertaining to the Prosimiæ.
- noun A member of the Prosimiæ; a lemuroid, lemurine, or lemur.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Of or from the prosimian suborder of primates.
- noun A
primate that is not amonkey or anape , generallynocturnal with largeeyes andears . Such primates were formerly grouped in thesuborder Prosimii, but are now considered aparaphyletic group and not aclade .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun primitive primates having large ears and eyes and characterized by nocturnal habits
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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HANNA: Well, the lemur is what we call a prosimian, which means pre-monkey and pre-ape.
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BB, the bouncing bush baby, was a small prosimian we brought back from Kenya, and Bear was simply the most loving and loyal German shepherd ever, who some fool dumped off in the hills of Beverly and I was lucky enough to rescue.
One From The Hart Stefanie Powers 2010
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The authors of the paper describing Darwinius classified it as a member of the primate family Notharctidae, subfamily Cercamoniinae, suggesting that it has the status of a significant transitional form (a "link") between the prosimian and simian ("anthropoid") primate lineages.
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The authors of the paper describing Darwinius classified it as a member of the primate family Notharctidae, subfamily Cercamoniinae, suggesting that it has the status of a significant transitional form (a "link") between the prosimian and simian ("anthropoid") primate lineages.
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At the Fongoli site in Senegal, we observed ten different chimpanzees use tools to hunt prosimian prey in 22 bouts.
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At the Fongoli site in Senegal, we observed ten different chimpanzees use tools to hunt prosimian prey in 22 bouts.
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So Gunther et al. (1992) titled a paper 'Can prosimian-like leaping be considered a preadaptation to bipedal walking in hominids'.
Literally, flying lemurs (and not dermopterans) Darren Naish 2006
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Can prosimian-like leaping be considered a preadaptation to bipedal walking in hominids?
Literally, flying lemurs (and not dermopterans) Darren Naish 2006
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Are there aerodynamic effects in leaping prosimian primates?
Literally, flying lemurs (and not dermopterans) Darren Naish 2006
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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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