English-Thai Dictionary
loris
N สัตว์ ตัวเล็ก คล้าย ลิง หน้า เหมือน สุนัขจิ้งจอก พวก Loris gracilis พบ ใน ศรีลังกา และ อินเดีย
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
LORIS
n.A small quadruped of Ceylon.
Webster's 1913 Dictionary
LORIS
Lo "ris, n. Etym: [Loris, or lori, the indigenous East Indian name. ](Zoöl.)
Defn: Any one of several species of small lemurs of the genus Stenops. They have long, slender limbs and large eyes, and are arboreal in their habits. The slender loris (S. gracilis ), of Ceylon, in one of the best known species. [Written also lori. ]
New American Oxford Dictionary
loris
lo ris |ˈlôris ˈlɔrəs | ▶noun ( pl. lorises ) a small, slow-moving nocturnal primate with a short or absent tail, living in dense vegetation in southern Asia. [Genera Loris and Nycticebus, family Lorisidae, suborder Prosimii: the slender loris (L. tardigradus ) of southern India and Sri Lanka, and the slow loris (genus Nycticebus, two species ) of Southeast Asia. ] ORIGIN late 18th cent.: from French, perhaps from obsolete Dutch loeris ‘clown. ’
Oxford Dictionary
loris
loris |ˈlɔːrɪs | ▶noun ( pl. lorises ) a small, slow-moving nocturnal Asian primate with a short or absent tail, living in dense vegetation. ●Genera Loris and Nycticebus, family Lorisidae, suborder Prosimii: the slender loris (L. tardigradus ) of South India and Sri Lanka, and the slow loris (genus Nycticebus, two species ) of SE Asia. ORIGIN late 18th cent.: from French, perhaps from obsolete Dutch loeris ‘clown ’.
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