zebra

noun
🔊/ˈzebrə/, 🔊/ˈziːbrə/
🔊/ˈziːbrə/
(plural zebra, zebras)
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  1. an African wild animal like a horse with black and white stripes (= lines) on its body斑马
    Topics Animalsb2
    Oxford Collocations DictionaryZebra is used before these nouns:
    • crossing
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    Word Originearly 17th cent.: from Italian, Spanish, or Portuguese, originally in the sense ‘wild ass’, perhaps ultimately from Latin equiferus, from equus ‘horse’ + ferus ‘wild’.