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See more results » (Definition ofzebrafrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)- A zebra baby can walk about 15 minutes after it’s born.
- Although scientists don’t yet know the exact reason for the pattern, one theory is that when many zebras run together in a group, they make a pattern which is visually confusing.
- Another theory suggests that zebra stripes are actually very effective in hiding the animal in long grass because lions are in fact colorblind!
- But baby zebras can run and stay near their mother and the other adult zebras.
- It looks like a kind of horse or zebra, but it’s not related to either of them.
- Lions love to eat baby zebras.
- So, a zebra’s stripes help it to survive.
- This makes it difficult for predators, such as lions, to identify one zebra to attack.
- Zebras have black and white stripes.
zebra| American DictionaryanAfricanwildanimalthatlookslike ahorsebut hasblackandwhiteorbrownandwhitelinesonitsbody (Definition ofzebrafrom theCambridge Academic Content Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)Examplesofzebrazebra For example, the wordzebrais quite low frequency.From theCambridge English Corpus As car ownership grew, it was clear that thezebracrossing could not cope with congested urban traffic.From theCambridge English Corpus The younger children had some difficulty with colour-based compounds, such aszebra-shells.From theCambridge English Corpus While the hunting grounds differ between these groups, the targeted species are the same; wildebeest is the major species, followed by gazelle,zebra, and topi.From theCambridge English Corpus Finally, children produced utterances such aszebra-shells only for objects that did in fact have a notable resemblance.From theCambridge English Corpus On naming a giraffe as azebra: picture naming errors across different categories.From theCambridge English Corpus The reported species are wildebeest,zebra, gazelle, topi, and impala.From theCambridge English Corpus For example, nozebraappears in the picture ofzebra-shells.From theCambridge English Corpus The children had to look at the stripes and recall that some animal had stripes like that, and that it was called azebra.From theCambridge English Corpus The analogy referenced in the introduction was that of a child who hears and maps the word 'zebra' to the striped animal in the zoo.From theCambridge English Corpus Interestingly, azebrawas identified as intermediate host for the cattle strain.From theCambridge English Corpus Other wildlife found are the wildebeest,zebra, buffalo, sitatunga, crocodile and hippopotamus.From theCambridge English Corpus They could represent any one of a number of antelope species,zebra, wild dog or jackal : it is hard to judge.From theCambridge English Corpus Obviously, this functionalist explanation is not satisfactor y as the final word as to why azebrahas its stripes.From theCambridge English Corpus Metaphorically, these items can be labelledzebra-shells or carrot-crayon.From theCambridge English Corpus These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. #https://dictionary.cambridge.org//dictionary/english/zebra## |