/ˈteɪpiːə(ɹ)/, /ˈteɪpɪə(ɹ)/, /ˈteɪpə(ɹ)/
OriginBorrowed from French tapir, from Old Tupi tapi'ira.
- An odd-toed ungulate of the genus Tapirus with a long prehensile upper lip.
“Once a dark, clumsy tapir stared at us from a gap in the bushes, and then lumbered away through the forest; once, too, the yellow, sinuous form of a great puma whisked amid the brushwood, and its gree”
Formstapirs(plural)
Source: Wiktionary