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Answer for the clue "Lemur called bashful Billy ", 5 letters:
loris

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Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Loris is the common name for the strepsirrhine primates of the subfamily Lorinae (sometimes spelled Lorisinae ) in the family Lorisidae . Loris is one genus in this subfamily and includes the slender lorises , while Nycticebus is the genus containing the ...

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Population (2000): 2079 Housing Units (2000): 922 Land area (2000): 3.111221 sq. miles (8.058024 sq. km) Water area (2000): 0.005192 sq. miles (0.013447 sq. km) Total area (2000): 3.116413 sq. miles (8.071471 sq. km) FIPS code: 42730 Located within: South ...

Usage examples of loris.

She grew tall, strong, graceful, and yet her dream seemed only to slip further and further out of her grasp, for, lo, Lorayne was a boy, and her mother insisted on calling her Loris.

Don Loris peevishly, sitting beside the great fireplace in the enormous hall.

Loris seemed to put aside his peevishness only a little to greet Hoddan.

It seemed to me that when better skulduggeries are concocted, that Don Loris and his associates ought to concoct them.

Former Archbishop Edmund Loris, Monsignor Lawrence Gorony, and Prince-Bishop Judhael of Meara were executed by my command in July of last yearthe latter primarily for reasons of state, which I regret, though his canonical betrayals and disobediences were such that his superiors did not dispute the political necessity, under the circumstances.

The young auxiliary bishop of Rhemuth had had to put up with what he considered fanatic foolishness far too many times to be impressed just because Loris was Primate of Gwynedd.

As Derry slipped away to take up his watch, Morgan worked his way over to Duncan, dodging scurrying choir boys and servers, and also doing his best to stay out of sight of Loris and Corrigan.

And as if that were not enough, he saw more riders joining Loris: lightly mounted and armored, but carrying short, deadly little recurve bows.

Somehow, he reminded me of one of those spindly nocturnal proto-primates that you sometimes see in zoos: a slow loris, writ large.

Thrash's heritage included Slow Loris and Peluche genes, rendering him a shaggy ursinoid with huge eyes.

There may possibly be a chance to collect a few cloud rats, and if there is time for side trips I should like very much to pick up a slow loris.