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- noun Plural form of
quagga .
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Examples
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Today, several generations of these new quaggas have been bred.
David Mizejewski: Should Scientists Recreate Extinct Species? David Mizejewski 2011
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Today, several generations of these new quaggas have been bred.
David Mizejewski: Should Scientists Recreate Extinct Species? David Mizejewski 2011
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While the scientific community is still debating whether these animals can truly be considered real quaggas, the effort has shown that it could be possible to bring certain species back from extinction.
David Mizejewski: Should Scientists Recreate Extinct Species? David Mizejewski 2011
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While the scientific community is still debating whether these animals can truly be considered real quaggas, the effort has shown that it could be possible to bring certain species back from extinction.
David Mizejewski: Should Scientists Recreate Extinct Species? David Mizejewski 2011
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Even though quaggas are only partially striped, study of their DNA has led some scientists to conclude that the quagga is actually a subspecies of plains zebra.
David Mizejewski: Should Scientists Recreate Extinct Species? David Mizejewski 2011
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Even though quaggas are only partially striped, study of their DNA has led some scientists to conclude that the quagga is actually a subspecies of plains zebra.
David Mizejewski: Should Scientists Recreate Extinct Species? David Mizejewski 2011
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Though the men eat zebras and quaggas, blood relations of the donkey, they were shocked at the idea of eating the ass; “it would be like eating man himself, because the donkey lives with man, and is his bosom companion.”
A Popular Account of Dr. Livingstone's Expedition to the Zambesi and Its Tributaries 2004
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The gaudy yellow blossoms with which these remarkable trees were covered yielded an aromatic and overpowering perfume -- while small troops of striped quaggas, or wild asses, and of brindled gnoos ... enlivened the scene.
South Africa and the Transvaal War, Vol. 1 (of 6) From the Foundation of Cape Colony to the Boer Ultimatum of 9th Oct. 1899 Louis Creswicke
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They followed the spoor of a company of elephants in the East country, they watched through the November mist the blesbok flying across the veld, a herd of quaggas taking cover with the rheebok, or a cloud of locusts sailing out of the sun to devastate the green lands.
The Judgment House Gilbert Parker 1897
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They followed the spoor of a company of elephants in the East country, they watched through the November mist the blesbok flying across the veld, a herd of quaggas taking cover with the rheebok, or a cloud of locusts sailing out of the sun to devastate the green lands.
The Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Gilbert Parker Gilbert Parker 1897
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