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Definition: Zebra |
ZebraNoun1. Any of several fleet black-and-white striped African equines. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "zebra" was first used: 1600. (references) |
Etymology: Zebra \Ze"bra\, noun. [from Portuguese expression zebra; compage to the Spanish expression cebra; probably from native African name.]. (references) |
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Computing | ZEBRA A data management package in the CERN Program Library. Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing. |
19th Century Satire | The crook among horses, condemned to wear stripes for life. Source: Foolish Dictionary, 1904. |
Dream Interpretation | To dream of a zebra, denotes that you will be interested in varying and fleeting enterprises. To see one wild in his native country, foretells that you will pursue a chimerical fancy which will return you unsatisfactory pleasure upon possession. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted .... |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
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Equus zebra Equus quagga Equus grevyi |
Zebras are members of the horse family native to central and southern Africa. All have vividly contrasting black and white vertical stripes (hence the zebra crossing named after it) on the forequarters, often tending towards the horizontal at the rear of the animal.
There are three species and many subspecies. Zebra populations vary a great deal, and the relationships between and the taxanomic status of several of the subspecies are unclear.
The Plains Zebra (Equus quagga, formerly Equus burchelli) is the most common, and has or had about 5 subspecies distributed across much of southern and eastern Africa. It, or particular subspecies of it, have also been known as the Common Zebra, the Dauw, Burchell's Zebra (actually the extinct subspecies, Equus quagga burchelli), and the Quagga (another extinct subspecies, Equus quagga quagga).
The Mountain Zebra (Equus zebra) of southwest Africa tends to have a sleek coat with a white belly and narrower stripes than the Plains Zebra. It has two subspecies and is classified as endangered.
Grevy's Zebra (Equus grevyi) is the largest type, similar in appearance to Grevy's Zebra but with an erect mane, and a long, narrow head making it appear rather mule-like. It is a creature of the semi-arid grasslands of Ethiopia, Somalia, and northern Kenya. It too is endangered.
Zebra was a Heavy Metal group who formed in 1977 and called it quits in 1987.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Zebra."
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
ZEBRA | English | Zero emission battery research activity | N/A |
ZEBRA | Swedish | Zebra | Finance |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Crosswords: Zebra |
| English words defined with "zebra": Dauw, Dreissena ♦ Equus grevyi, Equus quagga, Equus zebra zebra ♦ genus Dreissena, Grass parrakeet, grevy's zebra ♦ herd ♦ mountain zebra ♦ Paard, Pouched dog ♦ quagga ♦ Tasmanain wolf, Tasmanian wolf ♦ Zebra opossum, Zebrine. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "zebra": HIGZ ♦ Invasive species. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Zebra" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Basque (zebra), Czech (zebra), Dutch (zebra), German (zebra), Hungarian (zebra), Italian (zebra, zebra crossing), Papiamen (zebra), Portuguese (zebra), Serbo-Croatian (lined pedestrian crossing, zebra), Swedish (zebra), Turkish (zebra). |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | You two-toned, zebra headed, slime coated,pimple farming, parimicium brain, munching on your own mucus suffering from Peter Pan envy. (Hook; writing credit: James V. Hart and Malia Scotch Marmo. Based on the play 'Peter Pan' by J.M. Barrie.) You wouldn't cross the street if I lay naked on a zebra crossing. (The Sweeney; writing credit: Brian Faull; John Martin) | |
Clever | Even the boldest zebra fears the hungry lion. (references; author: unknown) | |
Movie/TV Titles | The Zebra Killer (1974) O Conde Zebra (1973) Ice Station Zebra (1968) Zebra in the Kitchen (1965) Dwa zebra Adama (1964) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Prairie dogs, animals at table, opossum family, tethered elephant, and monkeys painting zebra. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | The curious zebra alive from America! walk in gem'men and ladies, walk in. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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Minorities | Slovak Republic | Members of Zebra, an organization representing interracial marriages, stated that citizens of racially mixed background are denied equal access to opportunity. (references) |
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| "Zebra" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 90.31% of the time. "Zebra" is used about 196 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 90.31% | 177 | 23,322 |
| Noun (proper) | 9.69% | 19 | 80,337 |
| Total | 100.00% | 196 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Country | Name |
| USA | Zebra Technologies Corporation |
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
Expressions using "zebra": Asinus zebra ♦ Burchell's zebra ♦ common zebra ♦ Equus or Asinus zebra ♦ Equus zebra ♦ equus zebra zebra ♦ grevy's zebra ♦ mountain zebra ♦ plains zebra ♦ zebra caterpillar ♦ zebra crossing ♦ zebra finch ♦ zebra fish ♦ zebra mussel ♦ zebra opossum ♦ zebra orchid ♦ zebra parrakeet ♦ zebra poison ♦ zebra shark ♦ zebra spider ♦ zebra suit ♦ zebra swallowtail ♦ zebra wolf ♦ zebra wood. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "zebra": zebra-crossing, zebra-skin, zebra-stripes, zebra-tailed lizard, zebra-underwings, zebra-watching. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
zebra | 2,562 | zebra plant | 41 |
zebra printer | 416 | zebra fish | 38 |
zebra rug | 349 | book zebra | 33 |
stuffed zebra | 257 | zebra putter | 32 |
toy zebra | 239 | zebra ribbon | 32 |
zebra print | 223 | zebra bar code printer | 32 |
zebra technology | 170 | zebra print rug | 30 |
zebra picture | 167 | zebra fabric | 28 |
zebra finches | 122 | zebra information | 26 |
zebra finch | 117 | animal zebra | 26 |
zebra mussel | 117 | zebra danios | 25 |
zebra label printer | 103 | zebra stripes | 25 |
zebra pen | 89 | zebra photo | 24 |
zebra bedding | 73 | zebra print comforter | 24 |
zebra print bedding | 56 | zebra thermal printer | 24 |
zebra lounge | 53 | sex zebra | 23 |
zebra label | 46 | zebra skin | 22 |
zebra comforter | 45 | muscle zebra | 22 |
zebra danio | 45 | pattern zebra | 20 |
zebra grass | 44 | zebra fact | 20 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "zebra"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Afrikaans | sebra. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | zebër. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | حمار الوحش. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Basque | zebra. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | набразден като зебра, зебра (zebra crossing). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 斑马, 斑馬 . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | zebra. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | zebrastriber (zebra road markings), Stillehavs-zebrahaj (zebra shark), fodgængerovergang (cross-walk, pedestrian crossing, zebra crossing), fodgængerfelt (cross-walk, pedestrian crossing, zebra crossing). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | zebra, Kaapse ezel. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Esperanto | zebro. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | مخططیاراه راه , گوراسب . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | nollakuponkilaina Zebra (zero coupon Eurosterling bearer registered accruing security). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | zèbre (zero coupon Eurosterling bearer registered accruing security). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Zebra. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | ζέβρα. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | זבר", סוס עקו". (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | zebra. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Irish | séabra. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | zebra (zebra crossing). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 縞馬 . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | しまうま. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | sheabrey, assyl schimmeigagh. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Norwegian | sebra. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Occitan | zèbre. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Papiamen | zebra. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ebrazay zebra. (various references) zebrã (panda crossing), deţinut (convict, detainee, prisoner), în dungi. (various references) зебра. (various references) pitsi. (various references) zebra (lined pedestrian crossing). (various references) mbizi. (various references) zebbra. (various references) cebra (zebra road markings). (various references) punda milia. (various references) lí-dvúba. (various references) zebra (zero coupon Eurosterling bearer registered accruing security), sebra. (various references) zebra. (various references) зебра, переход типу зебра. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | equiferus. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "zebra": zebraic, zebras, zebrass, zebrasses, zebrawood, zebrawoods. (additional references) | |
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"Zebra" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Ebbrix, ebra, sabra, Sebrea, sembra, serba, serbi, Xebra, yerba, Zablah, Zahra, zarb, zeb, zeba, zebral, Zebrik, zeera, zera, zeral, zerbra, zere, zerm, zern, zery, Ziba, zibra, zuberi, Zura, Zurbaran. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "zebra" (pronounced zē"bru) |
| 4 | -ē" b r u | Libra. |
| 3 | -b r u | Abracadabra, algebra, candelabra, Cobra, hombre, macabre, Penumbra, Sabra, umbra, vertebra. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: braze. | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-e-r-z" | |
-1 letter: bare, bear, brae, raze. | |
-2 letters: arb, are, bar, bra, ear, era, reb. | |
-3 letters: ab, ae, ar, ba, be, er, re. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-b-e-r-z" | |
+1 letter: bezoar, blazer, braize, brazed, brazen, brazer, brazes, zareba, zebras. | |
+2 letters: arabize, bezoars, bizarre, blazers, braizes, brazens, brazers, brazier, zarebas, zareeba, zebraic, zebrass. | |
+3 letters: arabized, arabizes, arborize, baptizer, bizarres, blazoner, brazened, brazenly, braziers, emblazer, grazable, hebraize, urbanize, zareebas. | |
+4 letters: arabicize, arborized, arborizes, bacterize, baptizers, barbarize, bizarrely, blazoners, brazening, breezeway, brutalize, carbazole, carbonize, carburize, emblazers, grazeable, hebraized, hebraizes, marbleize, rebaptize, urbanized, urbanizes, verbalize, zebrasses, zebrawood. | |
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