Crossword-Solution: DANTA 5 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 6

The latter is found dwelling at a great elevation, in fact, on the tops of the highest mountains of that island; whereas the Danta, or American tapir, is altogether confined to the low hot plains.

Two species of bear and the "coatí" (_Nasua_) represent the plantigrades and inhabit the mountain slopes, and, of Pachydermata, the peccary (_Dicotyles_) and "danta" or tapir (_Tapirus_) have a wide distribution throughout the lowland and lower plateau forests.

Thus the Sanskrit word _danta_, "tooth," has been borrowed by Tamil in the form _tandam_, and the Telugu _anna_, "elder brother," _tammulu_, "younger brother," become when compounded _annadammulu_, "elder and younger brothers." There is no strongly marked accent on any one syllable, though there is a slight stress upon the first one.

His only defensive armour was a little round buckler of the skin of the _danta_ or tapir, not exceeding fourteen inches in diameter, strapped to his left arm.

Besides these they generally wear several necklaces of monkey or _danta_ teeth and a string or so of the bright, red-spotted-with-black seeds of the _huairuro_ or _quairor_,[47] which they wear as a sort of talisman.