Tapir

//ˈteɪpiːə(ɹ)//

"Tapir" in a Sentence (3 examples)

A tapir is a mammal with prehensile lips for eating tree foliage.

I saw a tapir in the zoo, and it is one of those animals that is so ugly, it is cute.

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.

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