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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A wild horse (Equus ferus subsp. przewalskii) of central Asia, having a light brown coat with a short erect mane and no forelock. It became extinct in the wild but has been reintroduced in Mongolia from captive populations.
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- noun A rare,
endangered horse,Equus ferus przewalskii , native to thesteppes ofCentral Asia .
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- noun wild horse of central Asia that resembles an ass; now endangered
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[After Nikolai Mikhaylovich Przhevalsky, (1839–1888), Russian explorer who was the first European to describe it.]
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After the Russian geographer and explorer of Polish origin Nikolai Przhevalsky (Russian: Николай Пржевальский (Nikoláj Prževálʹskij, Polish: Nikołaj Przewalski).
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