In"dris (?), In"dri (?), n. Zool.

Any lemurine animal of the genus Indris.

⇒ Several species are known, all of them natives of Madagascar, as the diadem indris (I. diadema), which has a white ruff around the forehead; the woolly indris (I. laniger); and the short-tailed or black indris (I. brevicaudatus), which is black, varied with gray.

 

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