tree shrew

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

   Broaderplacental

   Narrowerpentail

   Part ofTupaiidae

Questions about tree shrew

What does tree shrew mean?

tree shrew means "insectivorous arboreal mammal of southeast Asia that resembles a squirrel with large eyes and long sharp snout".

Is tree shrew a common word?

tree shrew is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.