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Tapir

noun

Large inoffensive chiefly nocturnal ungulate of tropical America and southeast Asia having a heavy body and fleshy snout.

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... animal commonly called tiger, though in reality it approaches nearer to the leopard, are found here, and two of their diminutives, named tiger-cats. The tapir, the lobba and deer afford excellent food, and chiefly frequent the swamps and low ground near the sides ...

— Wanderings In South America • Charles Waterton

... Another remarkable animal restored by the great French palaeontologist, the Palaeotherium, similarly tended to connect together animals to all appearance so different as the rhinoceros, the horse, and the tapir. Subsequent research has brought to light multitudes of facts of the same order; and, at the present day, the investigations of such anatomists as Ruetimeyer and Gaudry have tended to fill up, more and more, the gaps in our existing ...

— American Addresses, with a Lecture on the Study of Biology • Tomas Henry Huxley

Words linked to "Tapir" : perissodactyl mammal, genus Tapirus, odd-toed ungulate, Tapirus indicus, perissodactyl