lêmure
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Alternative forms
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Latin lemures (“the ghosts of the dead”).
Pronunciation
- Hyphenation: lê‧mu‧re
Noun
lêmure m (plural lêmures) (Brazilian Portuguese spelling)
- (Roman mythology) lemures (spirits or ghosts of the dead)
- lemur (strepsirrhine primate of the infraorder Lemuriformes, superfamily Lemuroidea)
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