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zebra-like

  • a word derived from zebra.
    zebra
    noun
    any of several horselike African mammals of the genus Equus, each species having a characteristic pattern of black or dark-brown stripes on a whitish background: all zebra species are threatened or endangered.

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Okapi are rare, zebra-like forest animals endemic only to neighbouring Democratic Republic of Congo.

From BBC Oct. 21, 2022

Researchers identify zebra-like stripes of plasma in a patch of space.

From Scientific American Jul. 18, 2015

Collection of magnetic data from the oceans continued in the early 1960s, but still nobody could explain the origin of the zebra-like patterns.

From Textbooks Jan. 1, 2015

Throughout the 19th century, explorers of Africa reported glimpses of a zebra-like creature in the Ituri Forest of the Congo.

From Slate May 23, 2012

A moment later the door opened, and Isaac Feinsilver entered, immaculately clothed in a suit of zebra-like design.

From Abe and Mawruss Being Further Adventures of Potash and Perlmutter by Montague Glass

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