Meanings
plural zebrinnies
- The offspring of a male horse and a female zebra.
They will also interbreed with horses, producing zebrules (Plate 137) or zebrinnies.
1955, Ivan Terence Sanderson, Living mammals of the world, page 2231 more example
His zebra-horse hybrids, or zebrules, and his horse-zebra hybrids, or zebrinnies, are not marked like their Burchell-zebra parent, but resemble in both cases the Somali zebra, which is the most primitive of all its kind.
1900, The Annual Register of World Events, volume 141, page 113
Origin
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