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tanrec

tanrec is the archaic form of tenrec.

Meaning of tenrec

Noun

tenrec (plural tenrecs)

  1. Any of several diverse small mammals, of the family Tenrecidae, many native to Madagascar.
    Synonyms:
    tenrecid

Forms of tanrec

pluraltanrecs

Questions about tanrec

What is tanrec the archaic form of?
Tanrec is the archaic form of tenrec.

Words near tanrec in the dictionary

  1. tanpuri
  2. tanpuris
  3. Tanque
  4. Tanquelinian
  5. Tanquelinians
  6. tanrec
  7. tanrecs
  8. tanrogan
  9. tanrogans
  10. tanru
  11. tans

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Adapted from Wiktionary: tanrec (page history and authors); tenrec (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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