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Meaning of LEMURIA

Webster's 1913 Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
\Le*mu"ri*a\ (l[-e]*m[=u]"r[i^]*[.a]), n. [So named from
the supposition that it was the original home of the lemurs.]
A hypothetical land, or continent, supposed by some to have
existed formerly in the Indian Ocean, of which Madagascar is
a remnant. --Herschel.
 
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