Word.ws English Dictionary

tapirs

tapirs is the plural of tapir.

Meaning of tapir

Noun

tapir (plural tapirs)

  1. 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 green, baleful eyes glared hatred at us over its tawny shoulder.1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC
    Synonyms:
    bush cow, mountain cow

Phrases with tapirs

Questions about tapirs

What is tapirs the plural of?
Tapirs is the plural of tapir.

Words near tapirs in the dictionary

  1. tapirine
  2. tapiroid
  3. tapiroids
  4. tapiromorph
  5. tapiromorphs
  6. tapirs
  7. tapis
  8. tapisers
  9. tapises
  10. tapism
  11. tapisms

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: tapirs (page history and authors); tapir (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.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “tapirs.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/tapirs. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.