Lemuria

专有名词
中文释义

英文释义

专有名词
  1. A religious feast of Ancient Rome during which rites were performed to exorcise the malevolent ghosts of the dead from their homes. historical
  2. 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.
  3. A supposed lost country, continent, or island of the Indian Ocean inhabited by an ancient, spiritually advanced race or advanced alien visitants. New-Age

词汇关系

衍生词
Lemurian
并列词
Atlantis Hyperborea Mu

词源

词源 1
From Latin Lemuria.
词源 2
From lemur + -ia; coined by English zoologist Philip Sclater in 1864.
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