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TAPIR

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("tapir" is a kind of...):

odd-toed ungulate; perissodactyl; perissodactyl mammal (placental mammals having hooves with an odd number of toes on each foot)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "tapir"):

New World tapir; Tapirus terrestris (a tapir found in South America and Central America)

Indian tapir; Malayan tapir; Tapirus indicus (a tapir found in Malaya and Sumatra)

Holonyms ("tapir" is a member of...):

genus Tapirus; Tapirus (type genus of the Tapiridae)

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