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tarpans

tarpans is the plural of tarpan.

Meaning of tarpan

Noun

tarpan (plural tarpans)

  1. An extinct Northern European wild horse, Equus ferus ferus.
    • It’s possible that wild horses, known as tarpans, survived in southern Russia until the nineteenth century, but these may have been hybrids, with genes from domestic horses.2018, Tim Flannery, Europe: A Natural History, page 256

Questions about tarpans

What is tarpans the plural of?
Tarpans is the plural of tarpan.

Words near tarpans in the dictionary

  1. tarots
  2. Taroudant
  3. tarp
  4. tarpa
  5. tarpan
  6. tarpans
  7. tarpaper
  8. tarpapered
  9. tarpapering
  10. tarpapers
  11. tarpaulin

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