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przevalski's horse

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Prze⋅wal⋅ski's horse

  [pshuh-vahl-skeez, shuh-]
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–noun
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, Prze⋅val⋅ski's horse.
Compare tarpan.

Origin:
after Nikolaĭ Mikhaĭlovich Przhevalʾskiĭ (Pol Przewalski) (1839–88), Russian explorer, the animal's first European observer (1876)
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przevalski's horse

noun
wild horse of central Asia that resembles an ass; now endangered [syn: Przewalski's horse] 
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