tapir

美 [ˈteɪpər]英 [ˈteɪpə(r)]

复数： tapirs

tapir

noun

貘（生活在中南美洲和东南亚的长鼻猪状动物）
an animal like a pig with a long nose, that lives in Central and S America and SE Asia

noun

large inoffensive chiefly nocturnal ungulate of tropical America and southeast Asia having a heavy body and fleshy snout

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1

The tapir uses its trunk to pick up the leaves and twigs it eats .

貘用它的象鼻捡起它食用的树叶和树枝。
2

The tapir 's main enemies are members of the cat family , such as tigers and jaguars .

貘的主要敌人是诸如老虎和美洲豹之类的猫科动物。
3

The tapir 's snout and upper lip form a short trunk like that of the elephant ( 2 ) .

貘的口鼻部部分和上嘴唇构成一个像大象那样的象鼻。
4

Twycross found a male tapir in Bristol , and he and Debbie are joyfully united .

特怀克罗斯动物园在布里斯托找到了一只公貘。现在，他已经和黛比快乐地结合了。
5

Methods Plasma from 109 AD patients ( AD group ) and 142 age - matched normal controls ( aNC group ) were examined by tissue amyloid plaque immunoreactivity ( TAPIR ) assay .

方法采用109例AD患者和142例健康老年人的血浆对Tg2576小鼠大脑切片进行免疫染色，并进行半定量的组织淀粉样蛋白免疫反应（TAPIR）测定。