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• Zebra mussels are causing significant problems as an invasive species in North America.From the entry zebra mussel
• These bone features, distinctive in the zebra, are actually present in all horses.From the entry horse
• He looked like a baby zebra, curled up in his stripy T-shirt.From the entry stripy
• Compare the tiger's coloration with that of the zebra.From the entry compare
• Watch the lioness prowling in the shrubbery for zebras.From the entry prowl
• The world can be a dangerous place for fox kits, flaminglets, armadillo pups, and zebra foals.2024, Dawn Huebner, Facing Mighty Fears About Being Apart From Parents, page 13. From the entry flaminglet
• These three were a part of a zeal of 30 zebras.2021 October 15, Julia Craven, “Everything We Know About the Maryland Zebras On the Run”, in Slate.com, archived from the original on 26…. From the entry zeal
• Four zebras stood despondent facing divergent directions like an old European film or a '90s band photo.2020, “Zoo”, in Still at the Rough Cusp of Renaissance, performed by Good Fuck. From the entry divergent
• Zebra striping is the method of alternating the color of rows in a table.2012 August, Marco Casario, Nathalie Wormser, Dan Saltzman, Anselm Bradford, Jonathan Reid, Francesco Improta, Aaron Congleton, “Chapter…. From the entry zebra striping
• My father is a zebra and my mother is a pony.2010, Marie Lestelle Evrard, You Look Sort of Strange, page v. From the entry zony
• They had the definite impression that that was what zebra crossings were meant for.2008 December 16, Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things, Random House, →ISBN, →OL, Ch. 1. From the entry zebra crossing
• The zebra of their legs twined and untwined together on the bed.2004, Andrea Levy, chapter 29, in Small Island, London: Review, page 301. From the entry untwine
• Animals—lions and zebras and beautiful snakes—live vividly in the present tense, in a bright unconsciousness of time.1998 March 30, Lance Morrow, “The Trouble With The Present Tense”, in Time. From the entry present tense
• Some female zebra finches reared with Bengalese finches for 40 days responded to male zebra finches.1981, D. M. Broom, Biology of Behaviour: Mechanisms, Functions and Applications, page 214. From the entry Bengalese finch
• Quantitative evidence comes, among others, from three studies of adolescent male zebra finches misimprinted on Bengalese finches.1981, Klaus Immelmann, Stephen J. Suomi, “14: Sensitive phases in Development”, in Klaus Immelmann, George W. Barlow, Lewis Petrinovich…. From the entry Bengalese finch
• A Grant zebra was acquired to provide sweetness, light, friendship and, possibly, romance for the zoo’s zebress.1970 March 23, David L. Maulsby, “Zoo’s New Denizens Include An Aoudad (Or Aou-Mom?)”, in The Sun, volume 266, number 45, Baltimore, Md.…. From the entry zebress
• While traveling in their station wagon, they saw a pride of lions feasting on a zebra.1953 July, Joe Austell Small, “Outdoor Notes”, in Norfolk and Western Magazine, volumes 30-31, Norfolk and Western Railway Company, page 379. From the entry pride
• A male zebra who lives at Livingston park in Jackson longed for love and affection.1928 August 2, E. L., “Mississippi Brevities”, in The Lexington Advertiser, volume 91, number 12, Lexington, Miss., page 3, column 2. From the entry zebress
• Zebras can also be called a herd or a zeal.2019 June 6, “A gaggle, a confusion and a conspiracy - bizarre animal collective group names”, in BBC, archived from the original on 01…. From the entry zeal
• Unfortunately, the tranqs did the opposite, setting the zebra off in a panic, as it ran into a nearby lake.2016 March 29, N/A, “Escaped zebra drowns at golf course: Zebra gets tranqed, dies in Japan - TomoNews”, in TomoNews US (Usenet). From the entry tranq
• Supplied with water, any good marathoner probably has the endurance to chase down a zebra, antelope, or steenbok.2016, Joseph Henrich, chapter 5, in The Secret of Our Success […] , Princeton: Princeton University Press, →ISBN. From the entry persistence hunting
• We then moved on to extending libraries through plug-in development and used a zebra striping function as an example.2012 July, Tim Wright, Learning JavaScript: A Hands-On Guide to the Fundamentals of Modern JavaScript, Addison-Wesley, →ISBN. From the entry zebra striping
• Tiny zebra fish squittered away through the beds of flowers and out into huge lakes that had appeared overnight.2011 April 10, Kevin Rushby, Hunting Pirate Heaven: In Search of Lost Pirate Utopias, Bloomsbury Publishing USA, →ISBN. From the entry squitter
• They also believed that if they were killed on a zebra crossing, the Government would pay for their funerals.2008 December 16, Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things, Random House, →ISBN, →OL, Ch. 1. From the entry zebra crossing
• Lawrence that has been invaded and colonized by zebra mussels.2004, Yves de Lafontaine, Marcel Comiré, “Zebra Mussel Monitoring in the Richelieu River: A Fruitful Interaction between Scientific…. From the entry Richelieu
• I also saw rhinocerosses, waterbuffaloes, different kinds of goats, tapirs, zebras, jackals, wolves, rabbits and two very large turtles.1998, Peter Richardus, editor, Tibetan Lives: Three Himalayan Autobiographies, Curzon Press, →ISBN, page 56. From the entry rhinocerosses
• Seuss who had thought up and named the zedonk—the animal produced when a male zebra mates with a female donkey!1997, Thomas Fensch, Of Sneetches and Whos and the Good Dr. Seuss…. From the entry zeedonk
• Then there are the game fees for the bait you’ll need − a zebra, warthog and a kudu, say − and for the lion itself.2026 April 21, Cal Flyn, “On the trail with the hunters who believe shooting big game can save Africa’s wildlife”, in The Guardian. From the entry outlay
• The cops were forced to call in reinforcements to shoot the zebra with tranquilizer darts in an effort to calm him down.2016 March 29, N/A, “Escaped zebra drowns at golf course: Zebra gets tranqed, dies in Japan - TomoNews”, in TomoNews US (Usenet). From the entry tranq
• A vulture can wolf more than two pounds of meat in a minute; a sizable crowd can strip a zebra—nose to tail—in 30 minutes.2015 December, Elizabeth Royte, “Vultures Are Revolting. Here's Why We Need to Save Them.”, in National Geographic, archived from the…. From the entry sizable
• Whether an amoebic blodge or a zebra, the struggle for existence has always been a bloodbath of death and displacement, without sentiment, without compassion.2010, Jeffrey Schloss, Michael Murray, The Believing Primate. From the entry blodge
• It's the watered-down versions you cant look at: the lacquered baroquey mirror, the dining room table with the zebra rug under it, those Chippendale chairs, the dark-painted walls.2007 December 20, Penelope Green, “Flash in the Can: Designs Soon Forgotten”, in New York Times. From the entry baroquey
• Luke to wander through the Gimbel menagerie, eight cagesful of animals, from camel to zebra, which had been rented from a game farm in upstate New York.1956 December 13, Phyllis Battelle, “Oh Dear, No Deer: Christmas Not Same in Supersonic Age”, in The Indianapolis News, page 40. From the entry cageful
• Among the depictions are a black rhinoceros, the body of an antelope covered by a red line, two white animals with black stripes that may be zebras, and a therianthrope.2016, Carmel Schrire, Past and Present in Hunter Gatherer Studies, Routledge, →ISBN. From the entry therianthrope
• The species is represented in Angola by Penrice's Zebra (E. zebra penricei), and in Damaraland by Hartmann's zebra (E. z. hartmannae), which are, however, perhaps not separable from one another.1907, Richard Lydekker, “The Zebra”, in Guide to the specimens of the horse family (Equidæ) exhibited in the Department of Zoology…. From the entry Hartmann's mountain zebra

Meaning of zebra

1. noun Any of three species of subgenus Hippotigris: Equus grevyi, Equus quagga, or Equus zebra, all with black and white stripes and native to Africa.
2. noun A referee.
3. noun An unlikely diagnosis, especially for symptoms probably caused by a common ailment.

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How do you use zebra in a sentence?

Zebra is used as a noun. For example: “Zebra mussels are causing significant problems as an invasive species in North America.”

What is a short sentence with zebra?

“A group of zebras can be called a dazzle.”

What does zebra mean?

Zebra means any of three species of subgenus Hippotigris: Equus grevyi, Equus quagga, or Equus zebra, all with black and white stripes and native to Africa.