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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Tarsius \Tar"si*us\, n. [NL. See {Tarsus}.] (Zo["o]l.)
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}.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Tarsier \Tar"si*er\, n. [Cf. F. tarsier.]
See {Tarsius}.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
tarsier
n : 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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