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Central American tapir

noun

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: baird's tapir … lists more than 100 species threatened with extinction in Panama, including the jaguar, the spectacled bear, the Central American tapir and all five species of sea turtle that nest there.— Jeannie Kever, Houston Chronicle, 1 Apr. 2007

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1934, in the meaning defined above

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