Noun: tarsier taa(r)-see-u(r)
- 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
"The tarsier's enormous eyes are each as large as its brain"
Derived forms: tarsiers
Type of: primate
Part of: genus Tarsius, Tarsius
Encyclopedia: Tarsier