tree shrew

/tri ʃru/

Other forms: tree shrews

Definitions of tree shrew

1. noun

   insectivorous arboreal mammal of southeast Asia that resembles a squirrel with large eyes and long sharp snout
   types:

   pen-tail, pen-tailed tree shrew, pentail

   brown tree shrew having a naked tail bilaterally fringed with long stiff hairs on the distal third; of Malaysia

   type of:

   eutherian, eutherian mammal, placental, placental mammal

   mammals having a placenta; all mammals except monotremes and marsupials