lemur

Other forms of lemur

plural

lemurs·

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 lemur

What does lemur mean?

lemur means "large-eyed arboreal prosimian having foxy faces and long furry tails".

How many syllables are in lemur?

lemur has 2 syllables: le-mur. The stress falls on "le". In IPA it is /ˈlimɚ/.

Is lemur a common word?

lemur 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.