Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The only genus of Tarsiidæ, containing the malmag, specter, or tarsier, T. spectrum. Also called Macrotarsus, Cephalopachus, Hypsicebus, and Spectrum.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Zoöl.) 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 , andtarsier .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun type and sole genus of the family Tarsiidae
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Recently he had been shocked by the sale to me of two live specimens of the curious spectacled lemur (_tarsius borneanus_), which had been added to my collections.
Through Central Borneo; an Account of Two Years' Travel in the Land of Head-Hunters Between the Years 1913 and 1917 Carl Lumholtz 1886
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