How do you use Lemur in a sentence? See 10+ example sentences showing how this word appears in different contexts, including synonyms like primate, plus the exact meaning.
Lemur meaning
- Any strepsirrhine primate of the superfamily Lemuroidea, native only to Madagascar and some surrounding islands.
- Any of the genus Lemur, represented by the ring-tailed lemur (Lemur catta).
- A loris (Lemur tardigradus, now Loris tardigradus), predating the 10th edition of Systema Naturæ.
Synonyms of Lemur
Using Lemur
- The main meaning on this page is: Any strepsirrhine primate of the superfamily Lemuroidea, native only to Madagascar and some surrounding islands. | Any of the genus Lemur, represented by the ring-tailed lemur (Lemur catta). | A loris (Lemur tardigradus, now Loris tardigradus), predating the 10th edition of Systema Naturæ.
- Useful related words include: primate.
- In the example corpus, lemur often appears in combinations such as: the lemur, lemur island, ring-tailed lemur.
Context around Lemur
- Average sentence length in these examples: 24.3 words
- Position in the sentence: 5 start, 9 middle, 4 end
- Sentence types: 18 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Lemur
- In this selection, "lemur" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 24.3 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, tailed, old, mother, island, named and gang stand out and add context to how "lemur" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a lemur surprised a and a mother lemur s pregnancy. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "lemur" sits close to words such as aal, aalto and aardvark, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with lemur
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Last week a ring-tailed lemur was stolen from the San Francisco Zoo. (13 words)
Someone cut through the outer perimeter fencing of the zoo to steal the lemur. (14 words)
Another example is the greater bamboo lemur, one of the rarest primates on the planet. (15 words)
Nearly a year after an endangered ring-tailed lemur named Isaac was abducted from a Southern California zoo and then abandoned in front of a nearby hotel with a note for the police, his captor was brought to justice, the authorities said this week. (44 words)
Theories had been proposed that its family, Daubentoniidae, was either a lemuriform primate (meaning its ancestors split from the lemur line more recently than lemurs and lorises split) or a sister group to all the other strepsirrhines. (37 words)
According to a plea agreement filed Monday, prosecutors say Kasbar broke into the Santa Ana Zoo after hours on July 27, 2018, cut open an enclosure and took a 32-year-old lemur named Isaac. (35 words)
Example sentences (18)
As “girl boss” of the zoo’s lemur gang, she has quickly asserted her authority over the lemur boys.
I live very near this zoo, and to be fair, the lemur island exhibit pretty cool.
Last week a ring-tailed lemur was stolen from the San Francisco Zoo.
Soller tweaked some settings and retested the Lemur Pro against the Linux Kernel Compilation benchmark and saw a roughly 14-percent increase in performance, which is substantial.
According to a plea agreement filed Monday, prosecutors say Kasbar broke into the Santa Ana Zoo after hours on July 27, 2018, cut open an enclosure and took a 32-year-old lemur named Isaac.
A mother lemur's pregnancy hormones affect her daughter's aggression later in life, researchers report.
Another example is the greater bamboo lemur, one of the rarest primates on the planet.
Hailey Baldwin took to her Instagram page to post a few photos of herself looking stylish and fit in a green snakeskin bikini while having a memorable moment with a lemur.
Nearly a year after an endangered ring-tailed lemur named Isaac was abducted from a Southern California zoo and then abandoned in front of a nearby hotel with a note for the police, his captor was brought to justice, the authorities said this week.
Unusual animals called aye-ayes, a species of Madagascan lemur, could have scampered fully formed from Edgar Allan Poe's forehead.
A lemur surprised a Florida Highway Patrol trooper when it hopped out of the trailer that was pulled over.
Love Nature, a joint venture with Blue Ant Media and Smithsonian Networks, has greenlit and commissioned the nature docuseries Gangs of Lemur Island with Bristol-based prodco True to Nature.
Police say a lemur who disappeared from an Ontario zoo following an alleged break-in is safe, but the hunt is still on for his compatriots – a tortoise and a gibbon monkey.
Replacing the crocodile above the left breast of the shirt are the Gulf of California porpoise, the Burmese Roofed Turtle, Sumatran Tiger, the Andega Rock Iguana and the Northern Sportive Lemur, among others.
Someone cut through the outer perimeter fencing of the zoo to steal the lemur.
The public will be able to visit Lemur Lake from Sunday, August 19 at 11am.
Theories had been proposed that its family, Daubentoniidae, was either a lemuriform primate (meaning its ancestors split from the lemur line more recently than lemurs and lorises split) or a sister group to all the other strepsirrhines.
The ruffed lemur species are the only lemurids that have true litters, consisting of anywhere from two to six offspring.
Common combinations with lemur
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- the lemur 5×
- lemur island 2×
- ring-tailed lemur 2×
- lemur named 2×