tapir

Etymology

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

noun

  1. Any one of the species of large odd-toed ungulates of the taxonomic family Tapiridae with a long prehensile upper lip, of which all four surviving species are in genus Tapirus.

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