Zebra

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. Any of several swift, wild, horselike African mammals of the genus Equus, having distinctive overall markings of alternating white and black or brown stripes.
  • n. Any of various striped organisms, such as the zebra butterfly.
  • n. A referee in football.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. An African animal, closely related to a horse, with black and white stripes.
  • n. A referee.
  • n. An unlikely diagnosis, especially for symptoms probably caused by a common ailment. (Originates in the advice often given to medical students: "When you hear hoof beats, think of horses, not zebras.")
  • n. A bi-racial person, specifically one born to a member of the Sub-Saharan African race and a Caucasian.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. Any member of three species of African wild horses remarkable for having the body white or yellowish white, and conspicuously marked with dark brown or brackish bands.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. A name used by fish-culturists in England for hybrids between Salmo fario, the European trout, and Salmo fontinalis, the American brook-trout.
  • n. An American heliconiid butterfly, Apostraphia charithonia, with black, yellow-banded wings. It occurs in Central America, the West Indies, and the southern United States. Its larvæ feed on the passion-flower vine.
  • n. An African solidungulate mammal, related to the horse and ass, of the genus Equus and subgenus Hippotigris, having the body more or less completely striped.
  • Resembling the stripes of a zebra; having stripes running along the sides: as, the zebra markings on certain spiders.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. any of several fleet black-and-white striped African equines
  • Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    equine    equid   
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    fascinoma   
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    Libra    libra   
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