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lem·u·res

(lĕm′ə-rās′, lĕm′yə-rēz′)

pl.n.

The spirits of the dead considered in ancient Rome as frightening specters and often exorcised from homes in religious rituals.

[Latin Lemurēs.]

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lemures

(ˈlɛmjʊˌriːz)

pl n

(Classical Myth & Legend) Roman myth the spirits of the dead

[Latin: see lemur]

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lem•u•res

(ˈlɛm yəˌriz; Lat. ˈlɛm ʊˌrɛs)

n.pl.

ghosts of the dead in ancient Roman belief.

[1545–55; < Latin]

lemures

Ancient Rome. the malevolent ghosts or spirits of a family’s dead ancestors.

See also: Ancestors

Translations

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"Forasmuch as it is ordained of God that all flesh hath spirit and thereby taketh on spiritual powers, so, also, the spirit hath powers of the flesh, even when it is gone out of the flesh and liveth as a thing apart, as many a violence performed by wraith and lemure sheweth.

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Il termine si trova nel De chutate Dei di Sant'Agostino --"dicit [Plato] animas hominum daemones esse et ex hominibus fieri lares, si boni meriti sunt, lemures, si mali, seu larvas" (bk.

Rielaborazioni del comico dantesco in Toto al giro d'Italia e Toto all'Inferno

Por ultimo, el lemur cola anillada (Lemur catta) es una especie nativa de Madagascar, y se encuentra como todos los lemures en peligro de extincion.

Descripcion Anatomica de la Musculatura Intrinseca y Cavidad de la Laringe en Cuatro Especies de Primates

Siguiendo esta estrategia se ha modelado la distribucion futura de especies en varios ambitos geograficos, tales como lemures en Madagascar (Brown y Yoder, 2015), mamiferos en Mexico (Aguado y Escalante, 2015), anfibios en Nueva Zelanda (Fouquet et al., 2010), hasta la distribucion de biomas andinos (Tovar et al., 2013), entre muchos otros (ver Mateo et al., 2011 para una lista extensa de aplicaciones).

Biogeografia predictiva: tecnicas de modelamiento de distribucion de especies y su aplicacion en el impacto del cambio climatico

Sus flores producen gran cantidad de nectar y son polinizadas por aves, lemures y murcielagos.

Evaluacion del potencial insecticida del nectar de Spathodea campanulata (Bignoniaceae) sobre Sitophilus zeamais (Coleoptera: Curculionidae)

LEMUR FACTS * The name "lemur" derives from the Latin word lemures, meaning "spirits of the night".