lemur是什麽意思

lemur

['limɚ]

lemur 狐猴

來自拉丁語lemur,亡靈，死者靈魂，來自瑞典植物學家林奈命名，因這種狐猴晝伏夜出而得名。部分學者猜測是因為在馬達加斯加傳說中，狐猴是其祖先之魂，部分影響了林奈的命名。

lemur (n.): nocturnal Madagascar mammal, 1795, coined by Linnaeus, from Latin lemures (plural) "spirits of the dead" in Roman mythology.
The oldest usage of "lemur" for a primate that we are aware of is in Linnaeus's catalog of the Museum of King Adolf Frederick of Sweden (Tattersall, 1982); .... In this work, he explained his use of the name "lemur" thus: "Lemures dixi hos, quod noctu imprimis obambulant, hominibus quodanmodo similes, & lento passu vagantur [I call them lemurs, because they go around mainly by night, in a certain way similar to humans, and roam with a slow pace]" [Dunkel, Alexander R., et al., "Giant rabbits, marmosets, and British comedies: etymology of lemur names, part 1," in "Lemur News," vol. 16, 2011-2012, p.65]
Lemuria (1864) was the name given by English zoologist P.L. Sclater (1829-1913) to a hypothetical ancient continent connecting Africa and Southeastern Asia (and including Madagascar), which was hypothesized to explain phenomena now accounted for by continental drift. Earlier it was the name of the Roman feast of the Lemures.

1. He had a plump face, lemur - like eyes, a quiet, subtle, modulated voice.: 他有一張胖胖的臉, 狐猴般的眼睛, 以及安詳、微妙和富於抑揚頓挫的嗓音.

2. Molly Mahoney : I asked for a lollipop and I got lemur!: 莫莉·馬奧尼: 我想要一根棒棒糖,卻得到了一隻狐猴!

3. Molly Mahoney: I asked for a lollipop and I got a lemur!: 莫莉?馬奧尼: 我想要一根棒棒糖,卻得到了一隻狐猴!

4. Key features of her skeleton suggest she is not an ancient lemur.: 她的骨骼的關鍵特征表明她不是一隻古代的狐猴.

5. A young mouse lemur gets its daily sustenance from an eye - dropper.: 一隻年幼的倭狐猴從滴管裏吸食它的食物.