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ZEBRA

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Any of several fleet black-and-white striped African equines

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Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("zebra" is a kind of...):

equid; equine (hoofed mammals having slender legs and a flat coat with a narrow mane along the back of the neck)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "zebra"):

Burchell's zebra; common zebra; Equus Burchelli (of the plains of central and eastern Africa)

Equus zebra zebra; mountain zebra (narrow-striped nearly extinct zebra of southern Africa)

Equus grevyi; grevy's zebra (zebra with less continuous stripes)

Holonyms ("zebra" is a member of...):

Equus; genus Equus (type genus of the Equidae: only surviving genus of the family Equidae)

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