Definitions for tapirs

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tapirs ta·pir

Spelling: [tey-per, tuh-peer]

IPA: /ˈteɪ pər, təˈpɪər/

Tapirs is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 8 points.

You can make 185 anagrams from letters in tapirs (aiprst).

Definitions for tapirs

noun

1. any of several large, stout, three-toed ungulates of the family Tapiridae, of Central and South America, the Malay Peninsula, and Sumatra, somewhat resembling swine and having a long, flexible snout: all species are threatened or endangered.

Origin of tapirs

1560-70; ≪ Tupi tapira

Examples for tapirs

Guapo kept his promise with the tapir, and on that very same day.

The tapir, then, in point of size takes precedence in the South-American fauna.

He has reached the spot where Halberger turned in along the tapir path.

It now only remained to get the tapir into it, but therein lay the difficulty.

But Guapo had promised him that he should see the tapir trapped in an hour's time.

The habits of the American tapir are not unlike those of the rhinoceros.

The elephant, rhinoceros, tapir, and the man-like orang-outang are all indigenous.

That the tapir was worshipped by the Mayans there is no doubt: ample proof exists.

The tapir was his principal symbol, and to what does this fact point?

And the white bones of the tapir lay in a huddled mass in the open.