Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun The hybrid offspring of a zebra and another equine species, especially a horse.
  • adjective Zebrine.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Resembling a zebra.
  • noun A hybrid between a zebra and a pony.

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

  • noun A cross between a zebra and any other equine animal, but especially a horse
  • adjective Of or pertaining to such a cross
  • adjective Of or pertaining to a zebra; zebrine

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Examples

  • Zoo vet Randol Delgado Fernandez says the zebroid is a precious addition.

    Reuters: Top News 2011

  • A hybrid animal known as a "zebroid" (horse-zebra) has been successfully used as a draft animal in South Africa, and like the more familiar [[mule]], it is sterile.

    Conservapedia - Recent changes [en] 2009

  • A hybrid animal known as a "zebroid" (horse-zebra) has been successfully used as a draft animal in South Africa, and like the more familiar

    Conservapedia - Recent changes [en] 2009

  • Today there are also believed to be a handful of ligers around the world and a similar number of tiglons, the product of a tiger father and lion mother. are smaller than ligers and take on more physical characteristics of the tiger. zeedonk, a cross between a zebra and a donkey; the zorse or zebroid, a zebra/horse cross; and the beefalo, an American bison/domestic cow cross.

    Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph 2010

  • Today there are also believed to be a handful of ligers around the world and a similar number of tiglons, the product of a tiger father and lion mother. are smaller than ligers and take on more physical characteristics of the tiger. zeedonk, a cross between a zebra and a donkey; the zorse or zebroid, a zebra/horse cross; and the beefalo, an American bison/domestic cow cross.

    Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph 2010

  • Maybe when you saw a zebroid (half donkey and / or horse with a zebra).

    The Boston Phoenix PHLOG 2009

  • Given this info, on further thought it seems likely that a naturally-occurring pregnancy from a union between a zebra and another equine might give the mother’s body a chance to go into “pregnancy mode” and carry the zebroid baby to term.

    Zorse – The Zebra Horse Hybrid 2006

  • PLEASE NOTE: THIS EDIT CONTAINS CONVERTED 4:3 MATERIAL Showing its stripes at Cuba's Ciego de Avila Zoo, a six-day-old zebroid.

    Reuters: Top News 2011

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