a. and sb. [f. LEMUR + -OID.] A. adj. Resembling the lemurs; pertaining to the sub-order Lemuroidea, of which the genus Lemur is the type.
1873. Mivart, Man & Apes, 70. They are the largest animals of the Lemuroid sub-order.
1880. Haughton, Phys. Geog., vi. 296. The extreme antiquity of the Lemuroid fauna.
1883. G. Allen, in Knowledge, 368/1. The fruit-bats seem to be … specialised lemuroid animals.
B. sb. A lemuroid animal.
1873. Mivart, Man & Apes, 69. All the Lemuroids eat vegetable food or insects.
1885. Riverside Nat. Hist., V. 481. America can so far lay as good a claim to having been the original home of the lemuroids.
