tree shrew

English Thesaurus

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

hypernym	:	eutherian, eutherian mammal, placental, placental mammal,
definition	:	mammals having a placenta; all mammals except monotremes and marsupials (noun.animal)

hyponym	:	pen-tail, pen-tailed tree shrew, pentail,
definition	:	brown tree shrew having a naked tail bilaterally fringed with long stiff hairs on the distal third; of Malaysia (noun.animal)

member meronym	:	family tupaiidae, tupaiidae,
definition	:	tree shrews; in some classifications tree shrews are considered prosimian primates (noun.animal)