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tarsier (iou)



tarsier noun. L18.
[French, from tarse TARSUS (with ref. to the animal's long tarsal bones).]
Zoology. Any of several small arboreal nocturnal primates constituting the genus Tarsius and family Tarsiidae, of Sumatra, Borneo, Sulawesi, and the Philippines, having large eyes and feeding on insects and small vertebrates.