NOUN | animal | tarsier | nocturnal arboreal primate of Indonesia and the Philippines having huge eyes and digits ending in pads to facilitate climbing |
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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 / entirely on insects and small vertebrates. | |
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Member of | Tarsius, genus Tarsius | type and sole genus of the family Tarsiidae |
Narrower | Tarsius glis | A variety of tarsier |
Tarsius syrichta | A variety of tarsier | |
Broader | primate | Any placental mammal of the order Primates |
Spanish | tarsero, társido, tarsier, tarsio, tarsius | |
Catalan | tarser, tàrsid |
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