Quagga Definition

kwăgə, kwŏgə
quaggas
noun
quaggas
An extinct zebra (Equus quagga) of South Africa.
Webster's New World
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Noun

Singular:
quagga
Plural:
quaggas

Origin of Quagga

  • From Dutch quagga (whence also Afrikaans kwagga), from a Khoisan term, probably Haiǁom/Nama ǁkoaah, apparently of imitative origin.

    From Wiktionary

  • Earlier Afrikaans (now spelled kwagga) from Khoikhoi !ua-xa perhaps imitative of its braying

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Quagga Sentence Examples

  • The elephant, giraffe, lion, leopard, hyena, zebra, buffalo, gnu, quagga, kudu, eland and many other kinds of antelope roamed the plains; the rhinoceros, hippopotamus and crocodile lived in or frequented the rivers, and ostriches and baboons were numerous.

  • The crest is very high, surmounted by a standing mane, banded The Quagga (Equus quagga).

  • The flesh of Burchell's zebra (or quagga, as it is often called) is relished by the natives as food, and its hide is very valuable for leather.

  • A chestnut mare, after having a hybrid by a quagga, produced to a black Arabian horse three foals showing a number of stripes - in one more stripes were present than in the quagga hybrid.

  • The quagga having become extinct, a number of mares were put to a richly striped Burchell zebra, and subsequently bred with Arab, thoroughbred and cross-bred sires.

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