Asian tapir

noun

: malayan tapir

… the Asian tapir may walk along river bottoms like a hippopotamus.

—Donald R. Prothero and Robert M. Schoch, Horns, Tusks, and Flippers: The Evolution of Hoofed Mammals, 2002

Word History

First Known Use

1898, in the meaning defined above

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