Tapir

//ˈteɪpiːə(ɹ)// noun

Definitions

Noun
  1. 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. 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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