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/ˈ(d)zɪɡətʌɪ/, /ˈdʒɪɡətʌɪ/, U.S. /ˈ(d)zɪɡəˌtaɪ/ A species of equine quadruped native to central Asia, Equus hemionus. It approaches the mule in appearance.
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1793 T. Pennant Hist. Quadrupeds (ed. 3) I. 4 Dshikketaei or Wild Mule.
1793 T. Pennant Hist. Quadrupeds (ed. 3) I. 7 The Mongalians call them Dshikketaei, which signifies the eared.
1793 T. Pennant Hist. Quadrupeds (ed. 3) I. 11 The manners of the Koulan or wild ass, are very much the same with those of the wild horse and the Dshikketaei.
1825 T. M. Harris Nat. Hist. Bible at Ass §4 The Gicquetei of Professor Pallas, the wild mule of Mongalia.
1834 H. McMurtrie tr. G. Cuvier Animal Kingdom (abridged ed.) 102 Equus hemionus. (The Dzigguetai.) A species which, as to its proportions, is intermediate between the horse and the ass, and lives in troops in the sandy deserts of central Asia.
1834 Phys. Geog. (U.K.S.) 54/2 Thus the quagga [and] the zebra..answer to the ass and the jiggetai of Asia.
1839 Penny Cycl. XV. 330/1 Wild animals are numerous, especially hares, antelopes, dshiggetais or wild asses.
1847–9 Todd's Cycl. Anat. & Physiol. IV. i. 714 The second species admitted by Zoologists to form a distinct race is the Dzigguetai.
1870 Blaine's Encycl. Rural Sports (rev. ed.) §77 That direct link between the horse and ass, known to the moderns as the dziggetai, or Equus hemionus.
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