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- Tapir - n. - 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.
- Tapiroid - a. - Allied to the tapir, or the Tapir family.
- Wallah - n. - A black variety of the jaguar; -- called also tapir tiger.
- Paleotherium - n. - An extinct genus of herbivorous Tertiary mammals, once supposed to have resembled the tapir in form, but now known to have had a more slender form, with a long neck like that of a llama.
- Coryphodon - n. - A genus of extinct mammals from the eocene tertiary of Europe and America. Its species varied in size between the tapir and rhinoceros, and were allied to those animals, but had short, plantigrade, five-toed feet, like the elephant.
- Tapiroid - a. - Allied to the tapir, or the Tapir family.