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tarsier
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun tarsier has 1 sense
- tarsier(n = noun.animal) - nocturnal arboreal primate of Indonesia and the Philippines having huge eyes and digits ending in pads to facilitate climbing; the only primate that spurns all plant material as food living entirely on insects and small vertebrates; is a kind of primate
is a member of genus tarsius, tarsius
has particulars: tarsius syrichta, tarsius glis
OXFORD DICTIONARY
tarsier, n. any small large-eyed arboreal nocturnal primate of the genus Tarsius, native to Borneo, the Philippines, etc., with a long tail and long hind legs used for leaping from tree to tree.
Etymology
F (as TARSUS), from the structure of its foot
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