/psheuh vahl"skeez, sheuh-/
a wild horse, Equus caballus przevalskii, chiefly of Mongolia and Sinkiang, characterized by light yellow coloring and a stiff, upright black mane with no forelock: the only remaining breed of wild horse, it is now endangered and chiefly maintained in zoos.
Also, Przevalski's horse . Cf. tarpan .
[ after Nikolai Mikhailovich Przheval'skii (Pol Przewalski ) (1839-88), Russian explorer, the animal's first European observer (1876) ]