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Definition of Tapirs
1. tapir [n] - See also: tapir
Lexicographical Neighbors of Tapirs
Literary usage of Tapirs
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Geography of Mammals by William Lutley Sclater, Philip Lutley Sclater (1899)
"SECTION V.—DISTRIBUTION OF tapirs The second family of Perissodactyle Ungulates,
the tapirs, has a still more remarkable distribution. ..."
2. Through the Brazilian Wilderness by Theodore Roosevelt (1914)
"CHAPTER V UP THE RIVER OF tapirs AFTER leaving Caceres we went up the ... which in
the local Indian dialect means River of tapirs. ..."
3. A New System of Geology: In which the Great Revolutions of the Earth and by Andrew Ure (1829)
"Gigantic fossil tapirs.—Most of the bones referred by M. Cuvier to this genus
... It would appear that these gigantic tapirs date from the same epoch as the ..."
4. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1918)
"The animals thus destroyed by the larger boas are sometimes as large as tapirs,
deer and even bullocks, but ordinarily much smaller mammals and birds. ..."
5. Darwinism: An Exposition of the Theory of Natural Selection, with Some of by Alfred Russel Wallace (1889)
"... fathom line — The distribution of marsupials — The distribution of tapirs —
Powers of dispersal as illustrated by insular organisms — Birds and insects ..."
6. Darwinism: An Exposition of the Theory of Natural Selection, with Some of by Alfred Russel Wallace (1889)
"... of the thousand- fathom line—The distribution of marsupials—The distribution
oJ tapirs—Powers of dispersal as illustrated by insular organisms—Birds and ..."
7. Darwinism: An Exposition of the Theory of Natural Selection, with Some of by Alfred Russel Wallace (1890)
"... fathom line—The distribution of marsupials—The distribution of tapirs—Powers
of dispersal as ..."
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