tree shrew
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tree shrew
n.
Any of various small omnivorous usually arboreal mammals of the order Scandentia, found in South and Southeast Asia and having a slender body and often a long furred tail.
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tree shrew
n
(Animals) any of numerous small arboreal mammals of the family Tupaiidae and order Scandentia, of SE Asia, having large eyes and resembling squirrels
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tree′ shrew`
n.
any S Asian tree-dwelling mammal of the family Tupaiidae, resembling a squirrel with a long snout and taxonomically combining the characteristics of a primate and insectivore.
[1890–95]
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| Noun | 1. |  tree shrew - insectivorous arboreal mammal of southeast Asia that resembles a squirrel with large eyes and long sharp snouteutherian, eutherian mammal, placental, placental mammal - mammals having a placenta; all mammals except monotremes and marsupials family Tupaiidae, Tupaiidae - tree shrews; in some classifications tree shrews are considered prosimian primates pentail, pen-tail, pen-tailed tree shrew - brown tree shrew having a naked tail bilaterally fringed with long stiff hairs on the distal third; of Malaysia |
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