ZEBRA


Meaning of ZEBRA in English

/ ˈzebrə; NAmE ; ˈziːbrə/ noun

( pl. zebra or zebras ) an African wild animal like a horse with black and white lines (= stripes ) on its body

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WORD ORIGIN

early 17th cent.: from Italian , Spanish , or Portuguese , originally in the sense wild ass, perhaps ultimately from Latin equiferus , from equus horse + ferus wild.

Oxford Advanced Learner's English Dictionary.      Оксфордский английский словарь для изучающик язык на продвинутом уровне.