Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A fabulous animal, the offspring of a bull and a mare or a she-ass, or of a horse or an ass and a cow.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun The fabled offspring of a bull and a mare.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun The fabled offspring of a bull and a mare.

Etymologies

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French

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Examples

  • A mule, the offspring of two different species; a jumart, the offspring of

    A Philosophical Dictionary 2007

  • Said he, "O King, my proof thereof was palpable nor can it be concealed from any wight of right wits and intelligence and special knowledge; for the horse's hoof is round whilst the hooves of buffaloes are elongated and duck-shaped, [FN#35] and hereby I kenned that this colt was a jumart, the issue of a cow-buffalo."

    Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855

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