Tupaia

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Translingual

Tupaia belangeri

Etymology

From Malay tupai (“squirrel, treeshrew”).

Proper noun

Tupaia f

A taxonomic genus within the family Tupaiidae – the tree shrews.

Hyponyms

(genus): Tupaia belangeri, Tupaia chrysogaster, Tupaia dorsalis, Tupaia everetti, Tupaia glis, Tupaia gracilis, Tupaia javanica, Tupaia longipes, Tupaia minor, Tupaia moellendorffi, Tupaia montana, Tupaia nicobarica, Tupaia palawanensis, Tupaia picta, Tupaia splendidula, Tupaia tana - species

References

Tupaia (genus) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Tupaia on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
Tupaia on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
Craig, John (1849). A new universal etymological technological, and pronouncing dictionary of the English Language.

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