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Definition of Indian tapir
1. Noun. A tapir found in Malaya and Sumatra.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Indian Tapir
Literary usage of Indian tapir
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Nature by Nature Publishing Group, Norman Lockyer (1883)
"This is the Malayan or Indian tapir, Tapirus indicus (sive malay- ... Although one
or two specimens of the Indian tapir passed through this country at ..."
2. The English Cyclopaedia by Charles Knight (1867)
"The forehead of the Indian tapir is, he observes, so convex, ... This organisation,
he observes, explains why the Indian tapir has a more powerful and ..."
3. Magazine of Natural History edited by John Claudius Loudon, Edward Charlesworth, John Denson (1831)
"It is as follows: — " The history of this transaction [the discovery of the Indian
tapir] affords too striking an illustration of the injustice of certain ..."
4. Proceedings by Zoological Society of London (1889)
"1) «f the stomach of the Indian tapir, but the two orifices ... the interior of
the stomach appeared to be, in fact, much like that of the Indian tapir. ..."
5. Proceedings by Zoological Society of London (1882)
"It has usually been stated that the intestinal canal is much shorter iu the
American than in the Indian tapir ; but the measurements given by different ..."
6. Mammalia: Their Various Orders and Habits Popularly Illustrated by Typical by Louis Figuier, Guillaume Louis Figuier (1870)
"The Tapir pinchaque, from living in cold countries and on high mountains, is
entirely covered with Ion? hair, which is of a brown colour. The Indian tapir ..."
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