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Webster 1913 Edition

(lē̍-mū′rĭ-ȧ)

Noun.

[So named from the supposition that it was the original home of the

lemurs

A hypothetical land, or continent, supposed by some to have existed formerly in the Indian Ocean, of which Madagascar is a remnant.

Herschel.

See also: Lemuria

Lemúria f