Crossword clues for loris
loris
- Big-eyed primate
- Large-eyed nocturnal primate
- Slow Sri Lankan lemur
- Nocturnal Indian primate
- Clown-faced primate
- Tailless nocturnal primate
- Tailless night creature
- Small arboreal primate
- Slow primate
- Slow -- (small primate)
- Slow -- (Asian primate)
- Singer and Petty
- Nocturnal, tailless mammal
- Loughlin and Petty
- Lemur of India
- Large-eyed, nocturnal lemur
- Indian lemur
- Big-eyed lemur
- Actresses Petty and Loughlin
- Actresses Laughlin and Singer
- "Slow" primate
- Slow-moving lemur
- Large-eyed lemur
- Tailless Old World mammal
- Petty and Singer
- Asiatic lemur
- Lemur of Asia
- Nocturnal lemur
- Lemur called bashful Billy
- Lemur's cousin
- Asian lemur
- Large-eyed Asiatic lemur
- Clown-faced sloth
- Slow-moving primate
- SE Asian native, one displaying bloomers after stripping off
- Primate is following God no end
- Primate is seen with nobleman, mostly
- Large-eyed primate
- Nocturnal primate
- Lemur's kin
- Sri Lankan primate
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Loris \Lo"ris\, n. [Loris, or lori, the indigenous East Indian name.] (Zo["o]l.) 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.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
small primate of Sri Lanka, 1774, from French loris (Buffon), of unknown origin, said to be from obsolete Dutch loeris "booby, clown."
Wiktionary
n. Any of several small, slow-moving primates, of the family Lorisidae, found in India and southeast Asia.
WordNet
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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 slow lorises.
Lorises are nocturnal. They are found in tropical and woodland forests of India, Sri Lanka, and parts of southeast Asia. Loris locomotion is a slow and cautious climbing form of quadrupedalism. Some lorises are almost entirely insectivorous, while others also include fruits, gums, leaves, and slugs in their diet.
Female lorises practice infant parking, leaving their infants behind in nests. Before they do this, they bathe their young with allergenic saliva that is acquired by licking patches on the insides of their elbows, which produce a mild toxin that discourages most predators, though orangutans occasionally eat lorises.
Loris can refer to:
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Loris, common name for the strepsirrhine primates of the subfamily Lorinae in family Lorisidae. In particular, the animals in the subfamily Lorinae have loris in their names:
- slender lorises, in the genus Loris
- slow lorises, in the genus Nycticebus
- Loris, South Carolina, a city in South Carolina
- Loris, an early pen name for the writer Hugo von Hofmannsthal
- Loris Azzaro, French fashion designer
- Loris Campana, Italian road bicycle and track cyclist
- Loris Capirossi, Italian Grand Prix motorcycle road racer
- Loris Ceroni, Italian record producer
- Loris Facci, Italian breaststroke swimmer
- Loris Fortuna, Italian politician
- Loris Kessel, Swiss racing driver
- Loris Karius, Germany soccer player
- Loris Reggiani, Italian motorcycle racer
- Loris Stecca, Italian world champion boxer
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.