ring-tailed lemur

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   small lemur having its tail barred with black

   SynonymsMadagascar catLemur catta

   Broaderlemur

   Part ofgenus Lemur

Questions about ring-tailed lemur

What does ring-tailed lemur mean?

ring-tailed lemur means "small lemur having its tail barred with black".

What is another word for ring-tailed lemur?

Close synonyms include Madagascar cat, Lemur catta. 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 ring-tailed lemur a common word?

ring-tailed lemur 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.