The Collaborative International Dictionary
Mule \Mule\ (m[=u]l), n. [F., a she-mule, L. mula, fem. of mulus; cf. Gr. my`klos, mychlo`s. Cf. AS. m[=u]l, fr. L. mulus. Cf. Mulatto.]
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(Zo["o]l.) A hybrid animal; specifically, one generated between an ass and a mare. Sometimes the term is applied to the offspring of a horse and a she-ass, but that hybrid is more properly termed a hinny. See Hinny.
Note: Mules are much used as draught animals. They are hardy, and proverbial for stubbornness.
(Bot.) A plant or vegetable produced by impregnating the pistil of one species with the pollen or fecundating dust of another; -- called also hybrid.
A very stubborn person.
A machine, used in factories, for spinning cotton, wool, etc., into yarn or thread and winding it into cops; -- called also jenny and mule-jenny.
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A slipper that has no fitting around the heel.
Syn: mules, scuff, scuffs.
Mule armadillo (Zo["o]l.), a long-eared armadillo (Tatusia hybrida), native of Buenos Ayres; -- called also mulita. See Illust. under Armadillo.
Mule deer (Zo["o]l.), a large deer ( Cervus macrotis syn. Cariacus macrotis) of the Western United States. The name refers to its long ears.
Mule pulley (Mach.), an idle pulley for guiding a belt which transmits motion between shafts that are not parallel.
Mule twist, cotton yarn in cops, as spun on a mule; -- in distinction from yarn spun on a throstle frame.
Wiktionary
n. ''Odocoileus hemionus'', a species of deer found in western North America.
WordNet
n. long-eared deer of western North America with two-pronged antlers [syn: burro deer, Odocoileus hemionus]
Wikipedia
The mule deer (Odocoileus hemionus) is a deer indigenous to western North America; it is named for its ears, which are large like those of the mule. There are believed to be several subspecies, including the black-tailed deer.
Unlike the related white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus), mule deer are generally more associated with the land west of the Missouri River, and more specifically with the Rocky Mountain region of North America. Mule deer have also been introduced to Argentina.
Usage examples of "mule deer".
The longest wall had been set aside for stuffed animal heads: a Cape buffalo, a bighorn sheep, a mule deer, a bull elk, a timber wolf and a Canadian lynx.
Too nervous to leave the problem uninvestigated, they crept back, only to see that the dust had been kicked up by a big mule deer.
He had missed mule deer before, but the fact that he had missed this one just when he had, was troubling.
The handle was made from the horn of a mule deer and the thin blade flashed in the moonlight as Bolivar carefully drew it back and forth across the whetstone, spitting on the stone now and then to dampen its surface.
I saw great numbers of elk and white-tailed deer, some beaver, antelope, mule deer, and wolves, and one bear on this little river.
The camera swung down to where four saddled horses waited, and a fifth with a gutted mule deer slung over its back.
The site was a good one, dry even during the winter rains but near good drinking water and fishing, with marshes for wildfowl, grassland for elk and mule deer and antelope, and it looked to be good gathering country, too.
The remains of the elk would last them for a while, and the luckless mule deer they'd run into on the way back here.
Sanjay took in the disassembled mule deer slung across one packsaddle, they'd done a rough job of draining and butchering, then packed the meat and edible organs back into the hide in a shapeless blood-wet bundle.
Presently a middle-sized mule deer came far enough out into the moonlight to let Bill see its big ears cupped in his direction.
Karl gathered the little mule deer protectively to his chest as Anna turned and squinted into the recesses of the last and largest of the sheltered cages.
Several times they spotted small bunches of mule deer moving along the upper meadow slopes near the tree line.