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wild ass

NOUN
  1. any of several equine mammals of Asia and northeast Africa

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  • The donkey is a domesticated form of the African wild ass.
  • The catapults were likewise called onagers, after the wild asses which fling up stones with their feet, and the ballistas scorpions, on account of a hook which stood upon the tablet, and being lowered by a blow of the fist, released the spring. Salammbo
  • Photographer Pete Oxford watches out for wolves, wild asses and dinosaur fossils in Mongolia.
  • The donkey is a domesticated form of the African wild ass.
  • The battlements or bastions were shaped in sharp angles a ditch, broad and deep, protected the foot of the rampart; and the archers on the rampart were assisted by military engines; the balistri, a powerful cross-bow, which darted short but massy arrows; the onagri, or wild asses, which, on the principle of a sling, threw stones and bullets of an enormous size. History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 4
  • Fine. The wild ass boy came home to his wild ass mother.
  • Who hath sent out the wild ass free? or who hath loosed the bands of the wild ass?
  • So next time you see a friend with a flashy car, go easy on those wild assumptions about lottery wins.
  • The species probably occupied rather dry, shrub-covered grasslands as suggested by the range of living wild asses and also by the frequency of rootlet impressions on the surfaces of many of the fossil bones.
  • In comparison with other Asiatic wild asses, E. onager is slightly smaller with a paler coat.
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