indri

1. 1.

   large short-tailed lemur of Madagascar having thick silky fur in black and white and fawn

   SynonymsindrisIndri indriIndri brevicaudatus

   Broaderlemur

   Part ofgenus Indri

Other forms of indri

plural

indris·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about indri

What does indri mean?

indri means "large short-tailed lemur of Madagascar having thick silky fur in black and white and fawn".

How many syllables are in indri?

indri has 2 syllables: in-dri. The stress falls on "dri". In IPA it is /ˌɪnˈdɹi/.

What is another word for indri?

Close synonyms include indris, Indri indri, Indri brevicaudatus. 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 indri a common word?

indri is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.