how to pronounce lemur

/ˈliː.məɹ/

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lemur is pronounced in two syllables

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lməɹ

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An example use of lemur in a speech by a native speaker of british english:

“… slimmer person there's lemur precedented …”

meanings of lemur

noun:

  1. Any strepsirrhine primate of the infraorder Lemuriformes, superfamily Lemuroidea, native only to Madagascar and some surrounding islands.
  2. A loris (Lemur tardigradus, now Loris tardigradus), predating the 10th edition of Systema Naturæ.
  3. Any of the genus Lemur, represented by the ring-tailed lemur (Lemur catta).

lemur frequency in english - C2+ level of CEFR

the word lemur occurs in english on average 0.2 times per one million words; this frequency warrants it to be in the study list for C2+ level of language mastery according to CEFR, the Common European Framework of Reference.

topics lemur can be related to

it is hard to perfectly classify words into specific topics since each word can have many context of its use, but our machine-learning models believe that lemur can be often used in the following areas:

1) life, nature, and living environment;

words with pronunciation similar to lemur

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