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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. adj. Related to, resembling, or characteristic of a zebra.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. Resembling or related to the zebra; striped like a zebra; pertaining to the subgenus Hippotigris: correlated with equine and asinine.

Wiktionary

  1. adj. of, like or pertaining to a zebra.
  2. n. A zebra or similar (notably equine) animal.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. adj. Pertaining to, or resembling, the zebra.

Examples

  • “These stripes were distinct on the hind-quarters, where they diverged from the spine, and pointed a little forwards; many of them as they diverged from the spine became a little branched, exactly in the same manner as in some zebrine species.”

    The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication, Vol. I.

  • “The self is 'a mixed body: studded, spotted, zebrine, tigroid, shimmering, spotted like an ocelot, whose life must be its business '.”

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  • “Spiew z pozogi (Warszawa: Wiedza, 1947); Utwory zebrine, ed. by Aniela Kmita-Piorunowa and Kazimierz Wyka (Kraków: Wydawnictwo Literackie, 1961); Utwory wybrane, ed. by Kazimierz Wyka (Kraków: Wydawnictwo Literackie, 1964); Wiersze, ed. by Jan Sochon (Bialystok: Krajowa Agencja Wydawnicza, 1984); Poezje, ed. by Jerzy Swiech (Lublin: Wydawn Lubelskie, 1992).”

    Krzystof Kamil Baczynski

  • “OW 1885 OW pteropine bat 1844 O zebrine zebra OW Insects account for six more such terms: acarine mite 1828 OW formicine ant 1885 anopheline mosquito OW”

    Verbatim: VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol IV No 1

  • “eggy" eggplant is more frequently encountered in Europe, as is the zebrine strain, which has longitudinal purple-and-white stripes.”

    Verbatim: VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol II No 4

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