a small, slow-moving nocturnal primate with a short or absent tail, living in dense vegetation in South Asia 懒猴;蜂猴
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
语源
late 18th cent.: from French, perhaps from obsolete Dutch loeris 'clown'