Definition of Dziggetai

1. Noun. Mongolian wild ass.

Exact synonyms: Chigetai, Equus Hemionus Hemionus
Generic synonyms: Equus Hemionus, Onager

Definition of Dziggetai

1. n. The kiang, a wild horse or wild ass of Thibet (Asinus hemionus).

Definition of Dziggetai

1. Noun. The Mongolian wild ass, a subspecies of the onager. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Medical Definition of Dziggetai

1. The kiang, a wild horse or wild ass of Thibet (Asinus hemionus). The name is sometimes applied also to the koulan or onager. See Koulan. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Dziggetai

dytiscids
dyun
dyvour
dyvouries
dyvours
dyvoury
dzeren
dzerens
dzeron
dzhalindite
dzharkenite
dzhigit
dzhigits
dzho
dzhos
dziggetai (current term)
dziggetais
dzo
dzomo
dzomos
dzong
dzongs
dzos
dzud
dzuds
dædal
dæmon
dæmoniacal
dæmonic
dæmonical

Literary usage of Dziggetai

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Illustrated Natural History by John George Wood (1865)
"THE Wild Asses are all celebrated for their extreme fleetness and sureness of foot, and among them the dziggetai, KHUK, ..."

2. The American Cyclopaedia: A Popular Dictionary of General Knowledge by George Ripley, Charles Anderson Dana (1883)
"The wild ass of Xenophon, and that, probably identical with it, hunted by the shahs of Persia, is presumably the dziggetai, ..."

3. A Catalogue of the Mammalia in the Museum of the Hon. East-India Company by Thomas Horsfield, East India Company Museum (1851)
"of the Wild Ass are enumerated by Indian travellers and zoologists, whose history and character remain for future determination: namely, the dziggetai, ..."

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