tapirとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

Borrowed from French tapir, from Old Tupi tapi'ira.

発音

• IPA^(key): /ˈteɪpiːə(ɹ)/, /ˈteɪpɪə(ɹ)/, /ˈteɪpə(ɹ)/
• 韻: -eɪpə(ɹ)
• Homophone: taper

名詞

tapir (複数形 tapirs)

1. Any one of the species of large odd-toed ungulates of the taxonomic family Tapiridae with a long prehensile upper lip, of which all four surviving species are in genus Tapirus.
   • 1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:

     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.

同意語

• (Guyana) bush cow, (Belize) mountain cow

下位語

• Baird's tapir, Tapirus bairdii
• Brazilian tapir, Tapirus terrestris
• Malayan tapir, Tapirus indicus
• mountain tapir, Tapirus pinchaque
• Tapirus californicus †
• Tapirus copei †
• Tapirus merriami †
• Tapirus polkensis †
• Tapirus veroensis †
• For others see tapir on Wikipedia.

Further reading

• tapir on Wikipedia.
• Tapirus on Wikispecies.
• Tapirus on Wikimedia Commons.

アナグラム

• atrip, parti, patri-