slender loris

[slen-der lawr-is]

noun

1. any of a group of lorises of the genus Loris, found in India and Sri Lanka: the various subspecies belong to two known species, the slow-moving gray slender loris (L. lydekkerianus ), a typically solitary forager, and the sometimes swift-moving red slender loris (L. tardigradus ), one of the most social of all nocturnal primate species.

Word History and Origins

Origin of slender loris¹

First recorded in 1825–35