zeedonkとは 意味・読み方・使い方

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• zedonk

語源

Blend of zebra +‎ donkey.

発音

• enPR: zē′dŏnk′, -dônk′
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈziːˌdɒnk/, /-dɔːnk/
• (General American) IPA: /ˈziˌdɑnk/, /-dɔnk/
• 韻: -iːdɒnk, -iːdɔːnk
• ハイフネーション: zee‧donk

名詞

zeedonk (plural zeedonks)

1. A cross between a zebra and a donkey.

   Synonym: zebrass

   Hypernym: zebroid

   • 1985, Hartson & Dawson, The Ultimate Irrelevant Encyclopedia, page 66:

     Tigons, ligers and a zeedonk have also been created by miscegenating mammals.

   • 1997, Thomas Fensch, Of Sneetches and Whos and the Good Dr. Seuss [1]

     One might have imagined that it could only have been Dr. Seuss who had thought up and named the zedonk—the animal produced when a male zebra mates with a female donkey!

   • 2003, Colin Bell, GCSE Applied Science Student Book [2]

     Suggest which animals are the parents of the cross breeds, zedonk and tiglion.

   • 2004, Kevin O'Hara, Last of the Donkey Pilgrims [3]

     I could have told him about zedonks and zebrasses; donkey cures for whooping cough and gout, how an onager is a wild ass from Central Asia; that the Australian kookaburra is nicknamed “the laughing donkey”; [...]