Dictionary entry

Indris

Webster's Dictionary 1913

{ In″dris (?), In″dri (?), } n.(Zoöl.) 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.