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Tapir
//ˈteɪpiːə(ɹ)// noun
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Noun
- 1 An odd-toed ungulate of the genus Tapirus with a long prehensile upper lip.
"Once a dark, clumsy tapir stared at us from a gap in the bushes, and then lumbered away through the forest; once, too, the yellow, sinuous form of a great puma whisked amid the brushwood, and its green, baleful eyes glared hatred at us over its tawny shoulder."
- 2 large inoffensive chiefly nocturnal ungulate of tropical America and southeast Asia having a heavy body and fleshy snout wordnet
Etymology
Borrowed from French tapir, from Old Tupi tapi'ira.
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