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Webster 1913 Edition
Loris
Lo′ris
,Noun.
[
Loris
, or lori
, the indigenous East Indian name.] (Zool.)
Any one of several species of small lemurs of the genus
Stenops
. They have long, slender limbs and large eyes, and are arboreal in their habits. The slender loris (Stenops gracilis
), of Ceylon, in one of the best known species. [Written also
lori
.] Webster 1828 Edition
Loris
LO'RIS
,Noun.
Definition 2024
Loris
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See also: Loris
English
![](http://llc12.www.definify.com/images_main/Lemur_tardigradus__sic___Nycticebus_coucang___Booah_Kawah__Coffee_Tree___William_Farquhar_Collection,_1819_1823_.jpg)
A 19th-century watercolour of a Sunda slow loris (Nycticebus coucang) clinging to a coffee plant (Coffea arabica), from the William Farquhar Collection of Natural History Drawings at the National Museum of Singapore
Noun
loris (plural lorises)
- Any of several small, slow-moving primates, of the family Lorisidae, found in India and southeast Asia.