Definitions for tarpans

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tarpans tar·pan

Spelling: [tahr-pan]

IPA: /tɑrˈpæn/

Tarpans is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 188 anagrams from letters in tarpans (aanprst).

Definitions for tarpans

noun

1. a small, dun-colored wild horse chiefly of southern Russia, having a flowing mane and tail: extinct since the early 20th century but somewhat restored by selective breeding of mixed-breed domestic horses, and sustained in zoos.

Origin of tarpans

1835-45; Russian tarpán, said to be Kazakh or Kirghiz

Examples for tarpans

tarpan, tar′pan, n. the small wild horse of the steppes of Russia.

He resembles the tarpan or wild horse of the Caspian steppes.

Another species, the tarpan, roams the Steppes of Tartary, and is with great difficulty tamed to the use of man.