Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Of or pertaining to the tapirs; resembling or characteristic of a tapir: as, the tapiroid section or series of perissodactyl ungulates (those which have the lower molars bilophodont, their crowns being disposed in transverse ridges, as in the tapirs), including the families Lophiodontidæ and Tapiridæ.
- noun A hoofed mammal resembling or related to the tapirs.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Zoöl.) Allied to the tapir, or the Tapir family.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective zoology Allied to the
tapir .
Etymologies
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tapir + -oid
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