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WILD ASS
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Dictionary entry overview: What does wild ass mean?
• WILD ASS (noun)
The noun WILD ASS has 1 sense:
1. any of several equine mammals of Asia and northeast Africa
Familiarity information: WILD ASS used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Any of several equine mammals of Asia and northeast Africa
Classified under:
Nouns denoting animals
Hypernyms ("wild ass" is a kind of...):
ass (hardy and sure-footed animal smaller and with longer ears than the horse)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "wild ass"):
African wild ass; Equus asinus (a wild ass of Africa)
Equus kiang; kiang (wild ass of Tibet and Mongolia)
Equus hemionus; onager (Asiatic wild ass)
Holonyms ("wild ass" is a member of...):
Equus; genus Equus (type genus of the Equidae: only surviving genus of the family Equidae)
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