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Tarsier

Definition: Tarsier

Tarsier

Noun

1. 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.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

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Crosswords: Tarsier

English words defined with "tarsier": Tarsius glis, Tarsius syrichta. (references)

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Specialty Definition: Tarsier

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

Tarsier
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Primates
Family: Tarsiidae
Genus: Tarsius
Species
Tarsius bancanus
Tarsius dianae
Tarsius pumilus
Tarsius spectrum
Tarsius syrichta
Tarsiers (family Tarsiidae, genus Tarsius) are a genus of primates, previously classified as prosimians, but now classified as haplorhines, though still not considered to be monkeys. Tarsiers have enormous eyes and long feet. They are insectivorous, and catch insects by jumping at them. They are named for the tarsus, which is part of the foot. T. syrichta is the Philippine or Mindanao tarsier.

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Tarsier."

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Usage Frequency: Tarsier

"Tarsier" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Tarsier" is used about 8 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (singular)100%8124,375

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expression: Tarsier

Hyphenated Usage

Beginning with "tarsier": tarsier-like.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Tarsier

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

tarsier

73

philippine tarsier

6

picture tarsier

5

monkey tarsier

3

healamonster tarsier

3
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Tarsier

Language Translations for "tarsier"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Chinese 

  

æ¯"较tarsier. (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

pápaszemes maki. (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

眼é¡çŒ¿ (specter lemur). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

ã‚ãŒã­ã–ã‚‹ (specter lemur). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

arsiertay.(various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Tarsier

Derivations

Words beginning with "tarsier": tarsiers. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Tarsier" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: arsier, Taseer, tearier, tertier, tessier, tracier, Trasler. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: Tarsier

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: artsier, tarries.

Words within the letters "a-e-i-r-r-s-t"

-1 letter: airers, airest, arrest, artier, irater, raiser, rarest, raster, raters, satire, sierra, starer, striae, tarres, terais, terras, triers.

-2 letters: airer, airts, arise, arris, aster, astir, irate, raise, rares, raser, rater, rates, rears, retia, riser, rites, serai, sirra, sitar, stair, stare, stria, tares, tarre, tarsi, tears, terai, terra, tiers, tires, trier, tries.

-3 letters: airs, airt, aits, ares, arse, arts, ates, ears, east, eats, eras, errs, erst, etas, ires, rare, rase, rate, rats, rear, reis, rest, rets, rias, rise, rite, sari, sate, sati, sear, seat, sera, seta, sire, site, star, stir, tare, tars, tear, teas, tier, ties, tire, tsar.

-4 letters: air, ais, ait, are, ars, art, ate, ear, eat, era, err, ers, eta, ire, its, ras, rat, rei, res, ret, ria, sae, sat, sea, sei, ser, set, sir, sit, sri, tae, tar, tas, tea, tie, tis.

-5 letters: ae, ai, ar, as, at, er, es, et, is, it, re, si, ta, ti.

 Words containing the letters "a-e-i-r-r-s-t"
 

+1 letter: arbiters, arteries, erratics, partiers, rarebits, rarities, restrain, retrains, retrials, rotaries, starrier, strainer, straiter, strawier, tarriers, tarriest, tarsiers, terrains, trailers, trainers, trashier.

 

+2 letters: airstream, airstrike, arresting, arriviste, arterials, arteritis, barrister, birrettas, careerist, catbriers, charriest, dreariest, earthrise, firebrats, firetraps, imparters, instarred, irrigates, irritates, martyries, oratories, oratrices, phratries, pretrains, pretrials, priorates, rabbiters, ratifiers, registrar, restrains, restraint, retailers, retailors, retainers, retiarius, retirants, ruralites, scarriest, serrating, serration, sparriest, starchier, starriest, strainers, streakier, streamier, swarthier, ternaries, terrapins, traceries, traitress, transpire, turbaries, veratrias, veratrins.

 

+3 letters: advertiser, airstreams, airstrikes, arbitrages, arbitrates, archpriest, arrivistes, arterioles, artificers, artistries, barratries, barretries, barristers, birthrates, careerists, carritches, carrotiest, cartridges, contraries, curtailers, distrainer, earthrises, entrainers, errantries, erraticism, firewaters, garnitures, geriatrics, hairstreak, harlotries, imperators, interlards, ironmaster, irradiates, irredentas, irridentas, liberators, literators, margarites, martyrizes, mortuaries, narratives, overstrain, overtrains, parritches, partridges, practicers, pretorians, privateers, rabbitries, rainforest, rainwaters, registrant, registrars, reiterates, reradiates, respirator, restarting, restrained, restrainer, restraints, retransmit, retrievals, ringmaster, riverboats, rubricates, ruralities, scratchier, serrations, shirtmaker, stragglier, straighter, surrealist, sweetbriar, tarriances, teaberries, terrariums, tertiaries, traditores, trailerist, traitoress, transcribe, transpired, transpires, traversing, treasuries, treasuring, triarchies, trierarchs, trihedrals, tristearin, triturates, truantries, varletries, veratrines, warranties, waterbirds.

 

+4 letters: aberrations, advertisers, afterbirths, airfreights, antitruster, apriorities, arbitragers, arborvitaes, architraves, archpriests, arrestingly, arteritides, arteritises, arthritides, arthrodesis, artilleries, artillerist, astrometric, authorizers, barbarities, barometries, bioreactors, bitartrates, brainteaser, breadfruits, caricatures, carpentries, cartularies, catarrhines, certioraris, charioteers, choirmaster, crematories, criticaster, denigrators, diarthroses, dissertator, distrainers, drillmaster, drivetrains, elutriators, eradicators, erraticisms, erythremias, erythrismal, extirpators, fraternizes, fratricides, freemartins, garnierites, garrulities, grapefruits, gravimeters, haircutters, hairstreaks, heartstring, hibernators, integrators, intergrades, intergrafts, interlayers, interparish, interstrain, interstrand, interurbans, ironmasters, irrealities, itineraries, literatures, marguerites, marquetries, meliorators, meritocrats, natriureses, natriuresis, ordinariest, overstrains, parquetries, partnership, parturients, pasteurizer, perestroika, perorations, praetorians, praetorship, printmakers, purgatories, quarterings, quarterlies, radiometers, rainforests, reaccredits, rearresting, reasserting, reassertion, reassorting, recreations, refractions, registrable, registrants, remastering, reparations, repatriates, replicators, repudiators, researchist, reservation, respiration, respirators, respiratory, restoration, restorative, restrainers, restraining, retractions, retransmits, ringmasters, ringstraked, rotaviruses, secretarial, secretariat, secretaries, semitrailer, shirtmakers, shorthaired, springwater, strangering, stranguries, streamliner, stripteaser, subirrigate, subliterary, surrealists, sweetbriars, tardigrades, temerarious, temporaries, terminators, termitaries, terrestrial, tetrarchies, tetrasporic, tiebreakers, traffickers, trailerings, trailerists, trailerites, traitresses, transceiver, transcribed, transcriber, transcribes, transferrin, transfigure, transmarine, transmitter, transpierce, travertines, treacheries, tributaries, triceratops, trifurcates, triliterals, tristearins, tyrannizers, unrestraint, variegators, variometers, wiretappers.

 

+5 letters: abbreviators, acrocentrics, advertorials, agricultures, airworthiest, ameliorators, antitrusters, appreciators, appropriates, arbitrageurs, arbitraments, arraignments, arsenopyrite, arteriograms, artillerists, astrometries, bacteriurias, barbiturates, bardolatries, birdwatchers, brainstormed, brainstormer, brainteasers, calorimeters, carburetions, caterpillars, centralizers, cerebrations, characteries, charcuteries, chartularies, chiropterans, choirmasters, clearstories, contrariness, contrariwise, correlations, correlatives, counterraids, crematoriums, criticasters, cryptomerias, crystallizer, depreciators, deteriorates, diastereomer, dipterocarps, directorates, dissertators, doctrinaires, dorsiventral, dramaturgies, drillmasters, drysalteries, entertainers, expropriates, extraversion, ferrimagnets, fraternalism, fraternities, fraternizers, fritillaries, frontiersman, generatrices, gradiometers, granitewares, gravimetries, grossularite, hairbreadths, hairsbreadth, hairsplitter, heartstrings, hindquarters, hyperrealist, impersonator, impregnators, incarcerates, incinerators, incorporates, incurvatures, interdealers, interlinears, intermarries, interrelates, interrobangs, interrogates, interstellar, interstrains, interstrands, laboratories, labradorites, libertarians, literariness, litterateurs, madreporites, magistrature, margraviates, maricultures, marqueteries, mastersinger, matriarchies, mercurations, natriuretics, neutralizers, obliterators, overstrained, parametrizes, partitioners, partnerships, pasteurizers, patriarchies, peregrinates, perestroikas, perforations, pericarditis, periphrastic, perspiration, perspiratory, platyrrhines, polarimeters, portraitures, praetorships, praiseworthy, prehistorian, preliterates, preparations, preparatives, prerogatives, presbyterial, presbyterian, preservation, preservative, prevaricates, probationers, procreations, professoriat, proletarians, proletariats, proliferates, proteinurias, pyrargyrites, quaternaries, radiometries, radiotracers, rarefactions, rattlebrains, reapportions, reassertions, reattributes, reauthorizes, recalibrates, reciprocates, recirculates, recordations, recriminates, reformations, refractories, refrainments, refrigerants, refrigerates, registerable, registration, regularities, regurgitates, rehydrations, reincarnates, reinnervates, reintegrates, reiterations, relubricates, remigrations, reoperations, reorientates, repartitions, replastering, repristinate, reprivatizes, reprobations, reradiations, researchists, reservations, respirations, restorations, restoratives, restrainable, restrainedly, resuscitator, retardations, retroactions, rhetoricians, sabermetrics, scatterbrain, secretariats, secretionary, semitrailers, sericultural, springwaters, straightbred, straightener, strawberries, streamliners, stripteasers, subirrigated, subirrigates, supergravity, superpatriot, surrealistic, tarradiddles, tergiversate, terrestrials, territorials, thitherwards, trailblazers, trainbearers, traitoresses, trajectories, trampoliners, transceivers, transcribers, transferring, transferrins, transfigured, transfigures, transmigrate, transmitters, transpierced, transpierces, trierarchies, triumvirates, ultramarines, ultraprecise, ultrarealism, ultrarealist, ultraserious, unrestrained, unrestraints, veratridines, veterinaries, vituperators, vociferators.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Tarsier


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

54 61 72 73 69 65 72

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

-    .-    .-.    ...    ..    .    .-.

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010100 01100001 01110010 01110011 01101001 01100101 01110010

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#84 &#97 &#114 &#115 &#105 &#101 &#114

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0054 0061 0072 0073 0069 0065 0072

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

54678485757184

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Images: Slideshow
4. Usage Frequency
5. Expressions
6. Expressions: Internet
7. Translations: Modern
8. Derivations
9. Anagrams
10. Orthography
11. Bibliography


  

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