Download the app
educalingo
Search

Meaning of "tarsier" in the English dictionary

Dictionary
DICTIONARY
section

ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD TARSIER

From French, from tarse the flat of the foot.
info
Etymology is the study of the origin of words and their changes in structure and significance.
facebooktwitterpinterestwhatsapp
section

PRONUNCIATION OF TARSIER

tarsier  [ˈtɑːsɪə] play
facebooktwitterpinterestwhatsapp

GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF TARSIER

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Tarsier is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES TARSIER MEAN IN ENGLISH?

tarsier

Tarsier

Tarsiers are haplorrhine primates of the family Tarsiidae, which is itself the lone extant family within the infraorder Tarsiiformes. Although the group was once more widespread, all the species living today are found in the islands of Southeast Asia.

Definition of tarsier in the English dictionary

The definition of tarsier in the dictionary is any of several nocturnal arboreal prosimian primates of the genus Tarsius, of Indonesia and the Philippines, having huge eyes, long hind legs, and digits ending in pads to facilitate climbing: family Tarsiidae.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH TARSIER


ageusia
eɪˈɡjuːsɪə
amphithecia
ˌæmfɪˈθiːsɪə
androecia
ænˈdriːsɪə
brassier
ˈbrɑːsɪə
clusia
ˈkluːsɪə
fleecier
ˈfliːsɪə
glassier
ˈɡlɑːsɪə
grassier
ˈɡrɑːsɪə
greasier
ˈɡriːsɪə
gynaecea
dʒaɪˈniːsɪə
intarsia
ɪnˈtɑːsɪə
mahseer
ˈmɑːsɪə
paramecia
ˌpærəˈmiːsɪə
parousia
pəˈruːsɪə
perithecia
ˌpɛrɪˈθiːsɪə
Perusia
peˈruːsɪə
rodgersia
rɒˈdʒɜːsɪə
saucier
ˈsɔːsɪə
stokesia
stəʊˈkiːsɪə
tarsia
ˈtɑːsɪə

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE TARSIER

tarriness
tarring
tarrock
tarrow
tarry
tarsal
tarsalgia
tarseal
Tarshish
tarsi
tarsia
tarsioid
tarsiped
tarsometatarsal
tarsometatarsi
tarsometatarsus
tarsus
tart
tart up
tartan

WORDS THAT END LIKE TARSIER

arsier
bossier
boursier
brasier
busier
cheesier
Corbusier
dossier
easier
Hoosier
horsier
huissier
Lavoisier
Le Corbusier
menuisier
messier
osier
patissier
rosier
visier

Synonyms and antonyms of tarsier in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «tarsier» into 25 languages

TRANSLATOR
online translator

TRANSLATION OF TARSIER

Find out the translation of tarsier to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of tarsier from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «tarsier» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

眼镜猴
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

tarsier
570 millions of speakers

English

tarsier
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

tarsier
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

tarsier
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

долгопят
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

Tarsier
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

tarsier
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

tarsier
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Tarsier
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Tarsier
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

メガネザル
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

안경 원숭이
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Tarsier
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

một giống khỉ
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

டார்சியரின்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

टार्सियर
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

tarsier
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

Tarsier
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

tarsjusz
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

долгопят
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

Tarsier
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

tarsier
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

Tarsier
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

Spökdjur
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

Tarsier
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of tarsier

TRENDS

TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «TARSIER»

The term «tarsier» is regularly used and occupies the 105.806 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
0
100%
FREQUENCY
Regularly used
51
/100
The map shown above gives the frequency of use of the term «tarsier» in the different countries.
Principal search tendencies and common uses of tarsier
List of principal searches undertaken by users to access our English online dictionary and most widely used expressions with the word «tarsier».

FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «TARSIER» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «tarsier» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «tarsier» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about tarsier

EXAMPLES

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «TARSIER»

Discover the use of tarsier in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to tarsier and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Tarsiers: Past, Present, and Future
Among the smallest primates (80-150 g), tarsier eyes are bigger than their brains (Sprankel, 1965). Small and smooth, tarsier brains resemble carnivore rather than primate brains (Rosa et al., 1996). Estrous females have swollen red vulvas  ...
Patricia C. Wright, Elwyn L. Simons, Sharon Gursky, 2003
2
Tarsiers
Introduces tarsiers, an arboreal animal found in the forests of Indonesia, Malaysia, Brunei, and the Philippines, discussing appearance, tiny size, special features, life cycle, diet, feeding habits, and habitat.
Kristin Petrie, 2010
3
International Wildlife Encyclopedia: Sweetfish - tree snake
The tarsier is one of the most fascinating of all the primates. It has a short snout and enormous eyes, a hairy nose with flared nostrils, mobile and membranous ears and a long, almost naked tail. Its fur is thick and woolly. Its hind legs are very  ...
‎2002
4
Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic ...
Wash., 34:103. common name: Pygmy Tarsier. type locality: C Sulawesi, Rano Rano. distribution: Known only from type locality and Latimojong Mtns, C Sulawesi (Indonesia). status: CITES – Appendix II; IUCN – Data Deficient. comments: ...
Don E. Wilson, DeeAnn M. Reeder, 2005
5
Female Choices: Sexual Behavior of Female Primates
Regardless of looks, the tarsier, a strange creature from Asia, may be a connecting bridge between strepsirhines and more specialized monkeys and apes. The special position of tarsiers is confirmed by their taxonomic position: tarsiers are ...
Meredith F. Small, 1993
6
Primate Adaptation and Evolution: 3rd Edn
TABLE 4.9 Infraorder TARSIIFORMES - - - - 118 - 130 - 118 - - - - 115 FIGURE 4.25 The skull, dentition, and skeleton of a tarsier, showing some of the distinctive features of the genus. New World Anthropoids FIGURE 5.1 Anatomical features ...
John G. Fleagle, 2013
7
Endangered Wildlife and Plants of the World
Tarsier. flarsius syrichia) ESA: Threatened IUCN: Lower risk Class: Mammalia Order: Primates Family: Tarsiidae Weight: VA-5% oz. (123-163 g) Head-body length: VA-5V* in. (12.2-13.2 cm) Tail length: 8-15 in. (20-38 cm) Diet: Primarily ...
‎2001
8
Medical Primatology: History, Biological Foundations and ...
Until recently, 3 species were traditionally assigned to this genus; the Phillipine tarsier (T. syrichta), the Bankan or western tarsier (T. bancanus), and the spectral tarsier (T. spectrum). In the 1980s, Carsten Niemitz proved the species ...
Eman P Fridman, Ronald D. Nadler, 2002
9
Handbook of Paleoanthropology: Vol I:Principles, Methods and ...
tarsier. theory. The original dentally based hypothesis that Eosimias is related to anthropoid ancestry relied on proposed synapomorphies that were not particularly compelling, traits like premolar exaenodonty (i.e., buccally bulging crowns) ...
Winfried Henke, Ian Tattersall, Thorolf Hardt, 2007
10
LIFE
THE. TERRIBLE. TARSIER. A miniature monster from the Philippines arrives in the U.S. The terrible little tarsier, which sleeps by day and pounces from treetops at night on lizards and insects in the Philippine jungles, is now in captivity and on  ...

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «TARSIER»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term tarsier is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Tarsiers! Cool facts about these wonderfully weird primates
The most noticeable thing about tarsiers are their eyes. They have the largest eyes relative to body size of any mammal. Each eyeball is around 16 millimeters in ... «Mother Nature Network, Apr 15»
2
Tarsier unveils creepy-cute horror platformer Hunger - is it the next …
If the protagonist's floaty clambering over dynamically lit 3D environments look a little Sackboy-esq, that's with good reason: Tarsier developed LittleBigPlanet for ... «GamesRadar, Mar 15»
3
Watch First Trailer for Creepy "Suspense-Adventure" Game Hunger
Hunger is currently in pre-production, though Tarsier explains that an early gameplay prototype is already finished. The game, when it's done, will be available ... «GameSpot, Feb 15»
4
Star Wars' Yoda's based on a tarsier?
In fact, Yoda is apparently based on a mammal found in the forests of Indonesia, Borneo and the Philippines, called a tarsier, reports a British newspaper. «Times of India, Jan 15»
5
Star Wars' YODA may have been based on saucer-eyed tarsier
Now one biologist is arguing that Yoda was in fact based on a tiny, wide-eyed creature, named the tarsier, which can be found in the trees of Indonesia, ... «Daily Mail, Jan 15»
6
Meet the tarsier: The world's oldest primate
Meet the tarsier: The world's oldest primate. The tarsier is the oldest surviving primate on Earth – but it isn't easy to find. Travel to the Philippine island that the ... «BBC News, Oct 14»
7
Tourism and mining threaten tiny primate
Genetic research could help save a tiny, carnivorous primate from the Philippines called the tarsier. “It's really not like any animals that Americans are familiar ... «Futurity: Research News, Aug 14»
8
Research Sheds Light On Genetic Diversity And Distribution Of The …
It's not a monkey. It's not a lemur. It's not an African Bush Baby or even a Madagascan Mouse. Meet the Philippine tarsier: a tiny, adorable and downright “cool” ... «RedOrbit, Aug 14»
9
Philippine tarsier gets boost from Kansas research, and genetic …
It's not a monkey. It's not a lemur. It's not an African Bush Baby or even a Madagascan Mouse. Meet the Philippine tarsier: a tiny, adorable and downright "cool" ... «Phys.Org, Aug 14»
10
Hunger is the new adventure game from LittleBigPlanet Vita's …
Tarsier Studios — the developer behind LittleBigPlanet PS Vita and contributor on the original LittleBigPlanet and LittleBigPlanet 2 for PlayStation 3 ... «Polygon, May 14»

REFERENCE
« EDUCALINGO. Tarsier [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/tarsier>. May 2024 ».
Download the educalingo app
en
English dictionary
Discover all that is hidden in the words on
index
a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z