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TARSIER
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
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
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("tarsier" is a kind of...):
primate (any placental mammal of the order Primates; has good eyesight and flexible hands and feet)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "tarsier"):
Tarsius syrichta; Tarsius glis (a variety of tarsier)
Holonyms ("tarsier" is a member of...):
genus Tarsius; Tarsius (type and sole genus of the family Tarsiidae)
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