The Collaborative International Dictionary
Hemionus \He*mi"o*nus\, n. [NL., fr. Gr. ? a half ass, a mule.]
(Zo["o]l.)
A wild ass found in Tibet; the kiang.
--Darwin.
Wiktionary
n. (context zoology obsolete English) A wild ass found in Tibet; the kiang.
Usage examples of "hemionus".
With respect to this last fact, I was so convinced that not even a stripe of colour appears from what would commonly be called an accident, that I was led solely from the occurrence of the face-stripes on this hybrid from the ass and hemionus, to ask Colonel poole whether such face-stripes ever occur in the eininently striped Kattywar breed of horses, and was, as we have seen, answered in the affirmative.
For myself, I venture confidently to look back thousands on thousands of generations, and I see an animal striped like a zebra, but perhaps otherwise very differently constructed, the common parent of our domestic horse, whether or not it be descended from one or more wild stocks, of the ass, the hemionus, quagga, and zebra.