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English noun: tarsier

1. tarsier (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


Broader (hypernym)primate


Narrower (hyponym)Tarsius glis, Tarsius syrichta


Member meronymgenus Tarsius, Tarsius









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