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    TARSIUS

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     I. (noun) 

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    Meaning:

    Type and sole genus of the family Tarsiidaeplay

    Synonyms:

    genus Tarsius; Tarsius

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting animals

    Hypernyms ("Tarsius" is a kind of...):

    mammal genus (a genus of mammals)

    Meronyms (members of "Tarsius"):

    tarsier (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)

    Holonyms ("Tarsius" is a member of...):

    family Tarsiidae; Tarsiidae (coextensive with the genus Tarsius: tarsiers)

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