bush baby

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   agile long-tailed nocturnal African lemur with dense woolly fur and large eyes and ears

   Synonymsgalagobushbaby

   Broaderlemur

   Part ofgenus Galago

Questions about bush baby

What does bush baby mean?

bush baby means "agile long-tailed nocturnal African lemur with dense woolly fur and large eyes and ears".

What is another word for bush baby?

Close synonyms include galago, bushbaby. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is bush baby a common word?

bush baby is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.