| 单词 | mule |
| 释义 | mule (once / 297 pages) 1n 2n When a donkey and a horse have a baby, it's a mule. A mule, however, can not make babies — since it has an odd number of chromosomes (63, to be exact). While donkeys can be notoriously stubborn and horses can be fragile, mules are sturdy, patient, and live long lives. Mules always have a donkey father and a horse mother, while the opposite combination (a female mule and male horse) is called a hinny, and it's less common. A completely unrelated definition of mule is a slip-on shoe or slipper. This second meaning is from the Latin mulleus calceus, the footwear of Roman patricians, "red high-soled shoe." WORD FAMILYmule: mules, muleteer, mulish+/muleteer: muleteers/mulish: mulishly, mulishness USAGE EXAMPLESMany elk, mule deer and antelope in Wyoming wear electronic data collars as researchers study how animals move across the landscape. Washington Times(Dec 31, 2016) Shoe designer Charlotte Dellal said she designed the saucy polka-dot mules for her label Charlotte Olympia to reflect the collection’s “happy mood.” Wall Street Journal(Dec 15, 2016) To lug his equipment, Watkins travelled with a dozen mules, or with chartered railroad cars hitched to the Union Pacific. The New Yorker(Dec 11, 2016) 1 n hybrid offspring of a male donkey and a female horse; usually sterile 2Hyper equid, equine hoofed mammals having slender legs and a flat coat with a narrow mane along the back of the neck n a slipper that has no fitting around the heel Syn|Hyper scuff carpet slipper, slipper low footwear that can be slipped on and off easily; usually worn indoors |
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