TARSIER

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 I. (noun) 

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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 on insects and small vertebrates

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Nouns denoting animals

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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