Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The hybrid offspring of a zebra and another equine species, especially a horse.
- adjective Zebrine.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Resembling a zebra.
- noun A hybrid between a zebra and a pony.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
cross between azebra and any otherequine animal, but especially ahorse - adjective Of or pertaining to such a cross
- adjective Of or pertaining to a zebra;
zebrine
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Examples
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Zoo vet Randol Delgado Fernandez says the zebroid is a precious addition.
Reuters: Top News 2011
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A hybrid animal known as a "zebroid" (horse-zebra) has been successfully used as a draft animal in South Africa, and like the more familiar [[mule]], it is sterile.
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A hybrid animal known as a "zebroid" (horse-zebra) has been successfully used as a draft animal in South Africa, and like the more familiar
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Today there are also believed to be a handful of ligers around the world and a similar number of tiglons, the product of a tiger father and lion mother. are smaller than ligers and take on more physical characteristics of the tiger. zeedonk, a cross between a zebra and a donkey; the zorse or zebroid, a zebra/horse cross; and the beefalo, an American bison/domestic cow cross.
Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph 2010
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Today there are also believed to be a handful of ligers around the world and a similar number of tiglons, the product of a tiger father and lion mother. are smaller than ligers and take on more physical characteristics of the tiger. zeedonk, a cross between a zebra and a donkey; the zorse or zebroid, a zebra/horse cross; and the beefalo, an American bison/domestic cow cross.
Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph 2010
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Maybe when you saw a zebroid (half donkey and / or horse with a zebra).
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Given this info, on further thought it seems likely that a naturally-occurring pregnancy from a union between a zebra and another equine might give the mother’s body a chance to go into “pregnancy mode” and carry the zebroid baby to term.
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PLEASE NOTE: THIS EDIT CONTAINS CONVERTED 4:3 MATERIAL Showing its stripes at Cuba's Ciego de Avila Zoo, a six-day-old zebroid.
Reuters: Top News 2011
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