przevalski\'s horse

[pshuh-vahl-skeez, shuh-]

Prze·wal·ski's horse

[pshuh-vahl-skeez, shuh-]
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 (Polish 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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