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Limuria

Limuria is the alternative form of Lemuria.

Meaning of Lemuria

Proper noun (1)

Lemuria

  1. (historical) A religious feast of Ancient Rome during which rites were performed to exorcise the malevolent ghosts of the dead from their homes.

Proper noun (2)

Lemuria

  1. A hypothetical continent or landmass postulated to have existed as an explanation of why lemur fossils appeared in Madagascar and India, but not in Africa or the Middle East.
    • Dr. Sclater has proposed for the hypothetical continent connecting these distant points, and whose former existence is indicated by the Mascarene islands and the Maldive coral group, the name of Lemuria.1869, Alfred Russel Wallace, The Malay Archipelago, volume I, London: Macmillan and Co., page 445
  2. (New-Age) A supposed lost country, continent, or island of the Indian Ocean inhabited by an ancient, spiritually advanced race or advanced alien visitants.

Questions about Limuria

What is Limuria the alternative form of?
Limuria is the alternative form of Lemuria.

Words near Limuria in the dictionary

  1. limuline
  2. limulines
  3. limuloid
  4. limuloids
  5. limulus
  6. Limuria
  7. limurite
  8. limus
  9. limy
  10. lin
  11. Lin'an

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Limuria (page history and authors); Lemuria (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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