"tupaiid" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

Forms: tupaiids [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} tupaiid (plural tupaiids)
  1. (zoology) Any of the family Tupaiidae of tree shrews. Categories (topical): Zoology Categories (lifeform): Mammals
    Sense id: en-tupaiid-en-noun-4bsVNUJf Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries Topics: biology, natural-sciences, zoology

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          "text": "Dental characters have proven to be of little use as there is no Paleocene tree shrew, which would show more primitive tupaiid dental characters. From the dentition of living tupaiids, one would easily infer that all of them have derived characters that prevent them from being ancestral to primates, among which [are] specializations in their dentitions or molar characters in tupaiines (see Butler, 1980).",
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          "text": "Figure 12.16 A typical tupaiid. This common treeshrew (Tupaia glis) superficially resembles a squirrel. Tupaiids have had a confused taxonomic history—at various times being placed in the Orders Primates and Insectivora, and currently within their own order, Scandentia.",
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