TREE SHREW

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does tree shrew mean? 

• TREE SHREW (noun)
  The noun TREE SHREW has 1 sense:

1. insectivorous arboreal mammal of southeast Asia that resembles a squirrel with large eyes and long sharp snout

  Familiarity information: TREE SHREW used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TREE SHREW (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Insectivorous arboreal mammal of southeast Asia that resembles a squirrel with large eyes and long sharp snout

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Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("tree shrew" is a kind of...):

eutherian; eutherian mammal; placental; placental mammal (mammals having a placenta; all mammals except monotremes and marsupials)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "tree shrew"):

pen-tail; pen-tailed tree shrew; pentail (brown tree shrew having a naked tail bilaterally fringed with long stiff hairs on the distal third; of Malaysia)

Holonyms ("tree shrew" is a member of...):

family Tupaiidae; Tupaiidae (tree shrews; in some classifications tree shrews are considered prosimian primates)