tarsier
英 ['tɑ:si:ə] 美 ['tɑsiə]

n.

（东印度）眼镜猴，跗猴；

英英释义

tarsier[ 'tɑ:siə ]

• n.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

双语例句

1. It may look like a gremlin, but this tiny animal is actually a pygmy tarsier, recently rediscovered in the forests of Indonesia.
   看起来像个小鬼，其实这种弱小的动物是最近在印度尼西亚被重新发现的侏儒眼镜猴。
2. We studied a maxillary fragment of tarsier and revealed that tarsiers had already achieved gigantic orbits and bell-shaped palate by the time of middle Eocene.
   对于眼镜猴上颌骨片断的研究表明，中始新世的眼镜猴已经具有了如同现生眼镜猴一样的钟形腭和明显增大的眼眶。

权威例句

Tarsier
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Primatology: First fossil tarsier from Africa
Tarsier/spl R/, a millimetre wave radar for airport runway debris detection
Phylogenetic affinities of tarsier in the context of primate Alu repeats
Nocturnal tarsier retina has both short and long/medium-wavelength cones in an unusual topography.
Conservation Status of the Spectral Tarsier Tarsier spectrum: Population Density and Home Range Size
Feeding behavior, mastication, and tooth wear in the western tarsier ( Tarsius bancanus )
Cranial morphology of Aegyptopithecus and Tarsius and the question of the tarsier-anthropoidean clade
First skulls of the early Eocene primate Shoshonius cooperi and the anthropoid-tarsier dichotomy.