Sentence Examples

  • Developed by Team Tarsier, Metronome stands out from the crowd by centering gameplay elements around sounds.
  • The tarsier feeds chiefly on insects and lizards, sleeps during the day, but is tolerably active at night, moving chiefly by jumping from place to place; an action for which the structure of its hind-legs seems particularly well adapted.
  • TARSIER, the Anglicized form of the scientific name of a small and aberrant lemur-like animal, Tarsius spectrum, inhabiting the Malay Peninsula and islands, and typifying a family.
  • The name tarsier refers to the great elongation of two of the bones of the tarsus, or ankle, and spectrum to the huge goggle-like eyes and attenuated form which constitute two of the most distinctive features of this weird little creature.
  • In organization the tarsier departs markedly from other lemurs as regards several particulars, and thereby approximates to monkeys and apes.
 
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