NOUN | animal | Equus, genus Equus | type genus of the Equidae |
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Meaning | type genus of the Equidae: only surviving genus of the family Equidae. | |
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Synonym | genus Equus | |
Member of | Equidae, family Equidae | horses |
Members | ass | hardy and sure-footed animal smaller and with longer ears than the horse |
domestic ass, donkey, Equus asinus | domestic beast of burden descended from the African wild ass | |
hinny | Hybrid offspring of a male horse and a female donkey or ass | |
horse, Equus caballus | solid-hoofed herbivorous quadruped domesticated since prehistoric times | |
mule | Hybrid offspring of a male donkey and a female horse | |
quagga, Equus quagga | mammal of South Africa that resembled a zebra | |
wild ass | Any of several equine mammals of Asia and northeast Africa | |
zebra | Any of several fleet black-and-white striped African equines | |
Broader | mammal genus | A genus of mammals |
Spanish | equus, genus equus | |
Catalan | equus, genus equus |
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