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WILD ASS

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Any of several equine mammals of Asia and northeast Africa

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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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