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Showing words for LORIS using the English dictionary

5 Letter Words for Loris

loirs, loris, roils

4 Letter Words for Loris

loir, lori, lors, oils, roil, silo, siol, soil, soir, sori

3 Letter Words for Loris

ilo, ios, irs, isl, iso, lir, lis, lor, los, oil, ois, orl, ors, osi, rio, roi, ros, sil, sir, sol, sri

Definitions for Loris

[1] Also called slender loris. a small, slender, tailless, large-eyed, nocturnal lemur, Loris gracilis, of southern India and Sri Lanka.
[2] Also called slow loris. a similar but stockier lemur of the genus Nycticebus, of southeastern Asia: N. pygmaeus is a threatened species.
[3] any of several omnivorous nocturnal slow-moving prosimian primates of the family Lorisidae, of S and SE Asia, esp Loris tardigradus (slow loris ) and Nycticebus coucang (slender loris ), having vestigial digits and no tails

Words nearby Loris

lorient, lorikeet, lorimer, lorin, loring, loris, lorn, lorna, lorne, lorrain, lorraine

Origin of Loris

1765–75; < New Latin < Dutch loeris simpleton, equivalent to loer stupid person (< French lourd < Latin lūridus lurid) + -is -ish1

Word origin for Loris

C18: from French; of uncertain origin