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A hybrid animal; specifically, one generated between an ass and a mare. Sometimes the term is applied to the offspring of a horse and a she-ass, but that hybrid is more properly termed a hinny. See Hinny.
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A plant or vegetable produced by impregnating the pistil of one species with the pollen or fecundating dust of another; -- called also hybrid.
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A cross between a jack and a mare. With rare exceptions, the mule is sterile.
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The hybrid that is produced by mating a male donkey with a female horse. Mules are usually sterile.
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a hybrid resulting from the breeding of a male donkey (jack) and a female horse (mare). Nearly all mules are sterile (with a few RARE exceptions). NAMHSA - North American Model Horse Show Association; the organization through which models qualify for NAN.
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Offspring or progeny of a jack and a mare.
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a common cross, with a horse or pony for a mother and a donkey for a father
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a cross between a donkey and a horse
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a cross between a mare and a jackass
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a cross between two species, the horse and the donkey
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a crossbreed between a male donkey and a female horse
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a horse designed by committee
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a hybrid, created by cross-breeding a horse with a donkey
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a hybrid of a male ass and a mare and is infertile
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a hybrid of a male ass jack and a mare
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a hybrid of an ass and a horse
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a hybrid resulting from the mating of a donkey jack to a horse mare
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a hybrid species which results from the cross-breeding of a horse and a donkey
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a lower-echelon criminal recruited by a smuggling organization to cross a border carrying drugs, or sometimes an innocent person in whose bag or vehicle the drugs are planted, for the purpose of retrieving them elsewhere
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an equine often used for plowing, the progeny of a male donkey or ass and a female horse (mare)
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an example of a hybrid, and results from the cross of a donkey and horse
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an example of such a hybrid
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an offspring of a male ass and a mare
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a particular hybrid of a particular male ass in addition to a particular mare in addition to is infertile
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a small brown donkey that stinks and is considered ugly and used exclusively for servitude
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a sterile cross between a male ass and a female horse
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a symbol of sterility
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A sterile hybrid of a male ass and a female horse.
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Crompton's hybrid spinning machine which combined the discontinuous drafting action of the jenny with the drafting rollers of the water frame.
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rhymes with tool): animal that results from breeding a horse with a donkey
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The offspring of a female horse and a male donkey.
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the sterile offspring of a male donkey and a female horse; sometimes called a long-eared robin by canawlers or a hayburner .
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Sterile offspring of a jack and a mare
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A cross between a female horse (mare) and a male donkey (jack).
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Offspring of a male donkey and a female horse. See also Hinney.
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In its common modern meaning, a mule is the offspring of a male donkey and a female horse. The reverse, the offspring of a male horse and a female donkey, is called a hinny. The term "mule" (Latin mulus) was formerly applied to the offspring of any two creatures of different species – in modern usage, a "hybrid".
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