loris
/ˈlɔːrɪs/noun
(pl. lorises)
1- a small, slow-moving nocturnal primate with a short or absent tail, living in dense vegetation in South Asia懒猴; 蜂猴。
1.1
- 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.懒猴属, 蜂猴属, 懒猴科, 原猴亚目:懒猴(拉丁名L. tardigradus), 产于南印度和斯里兰卡; 蜂猴(蜂猴属, 两种), 产于东南亚。
词源
late 18th cent.: from French, perhaps from obsolete Dutch loeris 'clown'.