TARSIER

 Dictionary entry overview: What does tarsier mean? 

• TARSIER (noun)
  The noun TARSIER has 1 sense:

1. 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

  Familiarity information: TARSIER used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TARSIER (noun)

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

Classified under:

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)