Bush Baby (Noun)
Meaning
Agile long-tailed nocturnal African lemur with dense woolly fur and large eyes and ears.
Classification
Nouns denoting animals.
Examples
- The bush baby's ability to leap great distances allows it to escape predators in the forest.
- In the moonlight the bush baby's large round eyes glowed brightly as it foraged for insects.
- Researchers studied the bush baby's unique adaptation of having dense woolly fur to keep warm in cooler temperatures.
- At night the bush baby would venture out of its nest to search for food using its keen sense of hearing.
- A group of tourists on a safari spotted a bush baby perched high in a tree, its long tail curled behind it.