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tapir - Wiktionary, the free dictionary

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Noun

tapir (plural tapirs)

  • 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.1

Etymology

Borrowed from French tapir, from Old Tupi tapi’ira.

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /ˈteɪpiːə(ɹ)/, /ˈteɪpɪə(ɹ)/, /ˈteɪpə(ɹ)/
  • Audio (Southern England): 🔊
  • Rhymes: -eɪpə(ɹ)
  • Homophone: taper

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Footnotes

  1. 1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC: ↩

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