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TREE SHREW
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Insectivorous arboreal mammal of southeast Asia that resembles a squirrel with large eyes and long sharp snout
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("tree shrew" is a kind of...):
eutherian; eutherian mammal; placental; placental mammal (mammals having a placenta; all mammals except monotremes and marsupials)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "tree shrew"):
pen-tail; pen-tailed tree shrew; pentail (brown tree shrew having a naked tail bilaterally fringed with long stiff hairs on the distal third; of Malaysia)
Holonyms ("tree shrew" is a member of...):
family Tupaiidae; Tupaiidae (tree shrews; in some classifications tree shrews are considered prosimian primates)
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