zeedonk

plural zeedonks · alternative zedonk

1. A cross between a zebra and a donkey.

   2003, Colin Bell, GCSE Applied Science Student Book http://books.google.com/books?ie=UTF-8&hl=en&id=WIBBzP4MtvcC&pg=PA42&lpg=PA42&sig=SVuPX8k4sQZ0y2HPWbm68LKgzQU Suggest which animals are the parents of the cross breeds, zedonk and tiglion.

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   Tigons, ligers and a zeedonk have also been created by miscegenating mammals.

   1985, Hartson & Dawson, The Ultimate Irrelevant Encyclopedia, page 66

   One might have imagined that it could only have been Dr. Seuss who had thought up and named the zedonk—the animal produced when a male zebra mates with a female donkey!

   1997, Thomas Fensch, Of Sneetches and Whos and the Good Dr. Seuss http://books.google.com/books?ie=UTF-8&hl=en&id=iDR_UvtiD_sC&pg=PA103&lpg=PA103&sig=qB-nL70ow8Z_m8e1cm9518ykKX4

   2004, Kevin O'Hara, Last of the Donkey Pilgrims http://books.google.com/books?ie=UTF-8&hl=en&id=IFUBfHAkYmoC&pg=PA184&lpg=PA184&sig=BaUIPzeYmdCHT2sMYfzqa4NPPsI I could have told him about zedonks and zebrasses; donkey cures for whooping cough and gout, how an onager is a wild ass from Central Asia; that the Australian kookaburra is nicknamed “the laughing donkey”; …

   Synonyms: zebrass