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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The wild horse of Tatary, belonging to one of those races which are by some authorities regarded as original, and not descended from domestic animals.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Zoöl.) A wild horse found in the region of the Caspian Sea.

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  • noun An extinct Northern European wild horse.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun European wild horse extinct since the early 20th century

Etymologies

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From the Russian тарпа́н, from Turkic (Kyrgyz or Kazakh) tarpan.

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