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1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)
tarsier
    n 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

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Tarsier \Tar"si*er\, n. [Cf. F. tarsier.]
   See Tarsius.
   [1913 Webster]

3. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Tarsius \Tar"si*us\, n. [NL. See Tarsus.] (Zool.)
   A genus of nocturnal lemurine mammals having very large eyes
   and ears, a long tail, and very long proximal tarsal bones;
   -- called also malmag, spectral lemur, podji, and
   tarsier.
   [1913 Webster]

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