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zebrinny en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /zəˈbɹɪni/

Etymology

Blend of zebra + hinny.

Meanings

1. The offspring of a male horse and a female zebra.
   • 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:
   • They will also interbreed with horses, producing zebrules (Plate 137) or zebrinnies. 1955, Ivan Terence Sanderson, Living mammals of the world, page 223:

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Relateds

zorse