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tuhnik

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EKI Combined Dictionary 2026

Last modified 11.02.2025

Meanings

Aafrikas elutsev pika saba ja kärssa meenutava koonuga imetaja

Translations

Usage examples
  • Praha loomaaias nägi ilmavalgust pisike tuhnik.
  • Hammaste ja aju ehituselt sarnaneb tuhnik ürgsete sõralistega.

Terminological databases

EKI terminibaas Esterm

ID 720422 Last modified 30.12.2004
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Domain classified zoology
  • toruhambuliste seltsi ainus nüüdisaegne imetajaliik
  • a burrowing nocturnal African mammal about five feet long that feeds on ants and termites, has a long snout, a snakelike tongue, large ears, and a heavy tapering tail, and is usually considered to form a single species that is the sole recent representative of the obscure mammalian order Tubulidentata
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  • FR: oryctéropes [U50979] DE: Erdferkel [U50979] LA: Orycteropus afer [TER] [ENE] FI: maasika [U50980]
tuhnik
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Word forms

Inflection Type 2

tuhnik tuhnikud
tuhniku tuhnikute
tuhnikut tuhnikuid

Etymology

kirjakeele sõna
  • tuhnik

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