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A lemur is an animal with a long, thick tail and a face that can remind you of a small monkey, but it is not a monkey. Almost all lemurs live on the island of , and nowhere else in the wild. Some are awake at night; some, like the famous ring-tailed lemur with the tail, are out in the day. The name was taken from a Latin word for spirits of the dead, because an old scientist thought their night life and slow, strange movements felt a little ghost-like. In time the word became the ordinary name for this whole group, not for one kind only.
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組成From Latin lemurēs, 'spirits of the dead'. Linnaeus gave the name in the 1750s, first to a night animal he thought moved like a ghost; later the word settled on the Madagascar animals we call lemurs today.
原始詞典資料3 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
lemurnoun/ˈliːmə(ɹ)/
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Any strepsirrhine primate of the superfamily Lemuroidea, native only to Madagascar and some surrounding islands.
- "Lemurs are naturally very social," said Mukobi. "Wild lemurs live in big family groups, and different species do really well together. Plus, the new lemur habitat is quite large, so each family group can have their own space when they choose to."
- Tucker-Brown explained how lemurs—like much of the “stranded” flora and fauna of Madagascar—are effectively living fossils. Belonging to a primate group called prosimians, lemurs were evolutionarily superseded by monkeys on mainland Africa 35mn years ago and driven to near-extinction.
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datedAny of the genus Lemur, represented by the ring-tailed lemur (Lemur catta).
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obsoleteA loris (Lemur tardigradus, now Loris tardigradus), predating the 10th edition of Systema Naturæ.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。