perissodactyl vs tapir

perissodactyl and tapir both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
perissodactyl	Yes	No	No	No
tapir	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, tapir is a hyponym of perissodactyl; that is, tapir is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than perissodactyl:

perissodactyl: placental mammals having hooves with an odd number of toes on each foot
tapir: large inoffensive chiefly nocturnal ungulate of tropical America and southeast Asia having a heavy body and fleshy snout

Other hyponyms of perissodactyl include equid, equine, rhino, rhinoceros.

perissodactyl (noun)	tapir (noun)
placental mammals having hooves with an odd number of toes on each foot	large inoffensive chiefly nocturnal ungulate of tropical America and southeast Asia having a heavy body and fleshy snout