hemionus

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A form of hemione — Equus hemionus, the onager or kiang, a kind of wild ass of Tibet.

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Meanings

noun
  1. obsoleteObsolete form of hemione.

    […] the ass seldom has stripes on its legs and the hemionus has none and has not even a shoulder-stripe, […]

    1859 November 24, Charles Darwin, “Laws of Variation”, in On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, […], London: John Murray, […], →OCLC, page 165

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