The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 5 letter word TAPIR
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More clues leading to the result TAPIR
- Animal turned peripatetic to some extent
- Mammal’s milk, iodine rich primarily
- Make use of skin of inferior animal
- Bug I removed, originally in browser
- Organised trip to catch a S American mammal
- Mammal repeatedly hit heads for its refuge
- Hoofed mammal Irish man or woman raised first
- Hoofed animal from Italy, caught in trap, struggling
- Mammal I caught in nasty trap
- Introducing this animal, primarily inhabiting Central America
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The straight part
We know that "animal" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case animal = tapir.The cryptic/wordplay part
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What does TAPIR mean?
TAPIR noun- Any one of the species of large odd-toed ungulates of the taxonomic family Tapiridae with a long prehensile upper lip, of which all four surviving species are in genus Tapirus.