loris

noun (plural lorises)

• a small, slow-moving nocturnal Asian primate with a short or absent tail, living in dense vegetation.

  • 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