tree shrew

tree shrew

n.

Any of various small squirrellike arboreal mammals of the family Tupaiidae found in southeast Asia, India, and southern China. Though sometimes placed in a separate taxonomic order, tree shrews are thought to be related to both insectivores and primates.

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tree shrew

n

(Life Sciences & Allied Applications / 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 - insectivorous arboreal mammal of southeast Asia that resembles a squirrel with large eyes and long sharp snout eutherian, 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 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