Crossword clues for tapir
tapir
- Herbivore with a flexible snout
- Three-toed mammal
- Swinelike beast
- Sumatran beast
- S. A. animal
- Rhino's cousin
- Ant eater
- Ungulate with a prehensile snout
- Tropical nocturnal mammal
- South American forest dweller
- South American animal with a snout
- Snouted mammal
- Snooty critter?
- Snooty animal
- Rubbery-snouted beast
- Rubbery-nosed ungulate
- Piglike rhino relative
- Piglike beast
- Pig's kin
- Hoofed Sumatran beast
- Hoglike rhino relative
- Floppy-snouted mammal
- Fleshy-snouted mammal
- Endangered animal resembling a swine
- Animal with a fleshy snout
- Tropical ungulate
- Swinelike mammal
- Swinelike creature in the "Dawn of Man" sequence in "2001: A Space Odyssey"
- Swine's kin
- South American grazer
- South American beast with a snout
- Snouted critter
- Snouted creature
- Snooty ungulate
- Rhino's' cousin
- Rhino cousin
- Piglike South American creature
- Pig-like animal
- Nocturnal ungulate
- Much smaller relative of the rhinoceros
- Mammal with a prehensile snout
- Mammal with a highly flexible nose
- Malay ungulate
- Long-snouted rhino cousin
- Long-snouted creature
- Long-snouted browser
- Long-nosed rhino relative
- Largely nocturnal forest mammal
- Jungle herbivore
- It's in the same animal order as a rhino
- Hoofed mammal
- Herbivore with a snout
- Floppy-snouted beast
- Endangered species with a long snout
- Endangered animal with a long snout
- Belize beast with a prominent snout
- Beast with a prehensile snout
- Animal with a trunk
- Animal with a long snout
- Animal that looks like a pig/anteater hybrid
- Andes animal
- "Mountain cow" of Belize
- Snouted beast
- Tropical animal
- Odd-toed ungulate
- Animal with a snout
- Snouted animal
- Piglike animal
- Snouted Latin American animal
- Three-toed animal with a snout
- Animal with a flexible snout
- Animal with a thick hide
- Swinelike animal
- Ungulate with a long snout
- Animal with four toes on its front feet and three toes on its back feet
- Rhinoceros relative
- Mammal with a flexible nose
- Animal with a prehensile snout
- Large inoffensive chiefly nocturnal ungulate of tropical America and southeast Asia having a heavy body and fleshy snout
- Long-nosed animal
- An ungulate
- S.A. ungulate
- Hippo's relative
- Hippopotamus's kin
- Tropical, hoglike mammal
- Malayan mammal
- S.A. beast
- South American ungulate
- Rhinoceros's relative
- Malayan ungulate
- Animal resembling a swine
- Tropical American mammal
- Amazonia denizen
- Nocturnal mammal with a short flexible proboscis
- Rhino's kin
- Relative of a rhinoceros
- Jaguar's prey
- Tropical mammal
- Hoglike mammal
- Relative of a hippopotamus
- S.A. mammal
- Hoglike animal
- Nocturnal ungulate with a long snout
- Hoofed animal
- Rhino's relative
- S. American mammal
- Mammal’s milk, iodine rich primarily
- Organised trip to catch a S American mammal
- Animal part taken from beast, a piranha
- Bet a piranha will eat a mammal
- Tropical hoofed mammal with a flexible proboscis
- Tear at recoiling animal
- Long-snouted animal
- Long-snouted mammal
- Fleshy-snouted beast
- Rhino relative with a long snout
- Piglike mammal
- Amazon ungulate
- Long-snouted critter
- Large mammal
- Piglike forest dweller
- Piglike creature
- Long-snouted beast
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Tapir \Ta"pir\, n. [Braz. tapy'ra: cf. F. tapir.] (Zo["o]l.) Any one of several species of large odd-toed ungulates belonging to Tapirus, Elasmognathus, and allied genera. They have a long prehensile upper lip, short ears, short and stout legs, a short, thick tail, and short, close hair. They have three toes on the hind feet, and four toes on the fore feet, but the outermost toe is of little use.
Note: The best-known species are the Indian tapir ( Tapirus Indicus), native of the East Indies and Malacca, which is black with a broad band of white around the middle, and the common American tapir ( Tapirus Americanus), which, when adult, is dull brown. Several others species inhabit the Andes and Central America.
Tapir tiger (Zo["o]l.), the wallah.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1774, perhaps via French tapir (16c.), ultimately from Tupi (Brazil) tapira.
Wiktionary
n. Any one the species of large odd-toed ungulates of the taxonomic family ''(taxlink Tapiridae family noshow=1)'' with a long prehensile upper lip, of which all four surviving species are in genus (taxlink Tapirus genus noshow=1).
WordNet
n. large inoffensive chiefly nocturnal ungulate of tropical America and southeast Asia having a heavy body and fleshy snout
Wikipedia
A tapir ( or ) is a large, herbivorous mammal, similar in shape to a pig, with a short, prehensile snout. Tapirs inhabit jungle and forest regions of South America, Central America, and Southeastern Asia. The five extant species of tapirs are the Brazilian tapir, the Malayan tapir, the Baird's tapir, the kabomani tapir, and the mountain tapir. The four species that have been evaluated (the Brazilian, Malayan, Baird's and mountain tapir) are all classified as endangered or vulnerable. Their closest relatives are the other odd-toed ungulates, which include horses, donkeys, zebras and rhinoceroses.
Usage examples of "tapir".
Tapirs, deer, agouti and other game fell before his arrows, until he had accumulated enough to supply the cabin for weeks to come.
Pete and I landed and reported the human footprints among the tapir and others, we were the objects of boisterous ridicule.
The Indian tapir has a more powerful and extensile trunk than the American, and its skull shows in consequence a greater space for the attachment of the muscles.
Philip turned to see Hauser coming back from the hunt, with a dead tapir slung on a pole, carried by four soldiers.
The seas still swarmed with serpentine monsters of the saurian type, and the firmer lands were peopled by huge animals, mastodons, bears, giant tapirs, mylodons, deinotheriums, and a score of other species too strange for them to recognise by any Earthly likeness, which roamed in great herds through the vast twilit forests and over boundless plains covered with grey-blue vegetation.
A comparison of the skulls of these three groups of animals shows, however, that although the nasal openings may be similarly situated, the elephant and tapir skulls have further modifications which are not present in the sauropod skull.
Lophrodon, that gigantic tapir, which concealed itself behind rocks, ready to do battle for its prey with the Anoplotherium, a singular animal partaking of the nature of the rhinoceros, the horse, the hippopotamus and the camel.
Not likely that the elephants, the seals, the big cats or the bears would be up and doing, but the baboons, the macaques, the mangabeys, the gibbons, the deer, the tapirs, the llamas, the giraffes, the mongooses were early risers.
The draught animals are giant tapirs, three meters high at the shoulder, looking down long noses, arrogant as camels.
When it was realized that ancient tapirs had existed simultaneously in South America and Southeast Asia a land bridge was drawn there, too.
South America is characterized by possessing many peculiar gnawers, a family of monkeys, the llama, peccari, tapir, opossums, and, especially, several genera of Edentata, the order which includes the sloths, ant-eaters, and armadilloes.
But the tapir whip, in the hands of an expert like Olimpioto put it bluntly, Mr Faith, it flays a person alive.
Even I got good pictures of the friendly tapir, and the tamandua (lesser anteater) was an absolute ham.