zebrinny

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/zəˈbɹɪni/

noun

The offspring of a male horse and a female zebra.

Scrabble 22

Meanings

nounzebrinny (plural zebrinnies)

plural zebrinnies

  1. 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 223
    1 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

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