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kiang
[ kee-ahng ]
noun
- the largest species of wild ass, Equus kiang: found in Tibet, northern Nepal, and the northern Indian region of Ladakh, the kiang was once considered a subspecies of the onager but is now classified as a distinct species.
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Example Sentences
It is situated at the mouth of the Yangtse-Kiang, the largest river of Asia, navigable for fifteen hundred miles.
I was travelling on a missionary tour in the province of Cheh-kiang, and had to pass the night in a very wicked town.
Confining attention to Asia these figures, large though they seem, are far exceeded by those of the Yangtsze-Kiang.
Down in Kiang Su a scholar cut off his left arm and with the red blood wrote his appeal.
Adul had caught a kiang foal four months old, which was ill and kept always turning round.
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