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quagga
KWA-ga
noun
an extinct zebra-like African animal
1863Charles LyellThe Antiquity of ManWe might have presumed that as no living representative of the equine family, whether horse, ass, zebra, or quagga, had been furnished by North or South America when those regions were first explored by Europeans, a search in the transatlantic world for fossil species might be dispensed with.1871Sir Henry M. StanleyHow I Found LivingstoneFor nine hours we held on our way, starting with noisy shouts the fierce rhinoceros, the timid quagga, and the herds of antelopes which crowd the jungles of this broad salina.1988George R. R. MartinAces AbroadSudden light flooded down from above them, bursting through the gratings, painting quagga stripes of illumination.

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