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equid  (kwd, kwd)

Any of various hoofed mammals of the family Equidae, which includes horses, donkeys, and zebras. Equids have muscular bodies with long, slender legs adapted for running and a single hoofed digit at the end of each limb.

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equid - hoofed mammals having slender legs and a flat coat with a narrow mane along the back of the neck equine odd-toed ungulate, perissodactyl, perissodactyl mammal - placental mammals having hooves with an odd number of toes on each foot Equidae, family Equidae - horses; asses; zebras; extinct animals Equus caballus, horse - solid-hoofed herbivorous quadruped domesticated since prehistoric times ass - hardy and sure-footed animal smaller and with longer ears than the horse mule - hybrid offspring of a male donkey and a female horse; usually sterile hinny - hybrid offspring of a male horse and a female donkey or ass; usually sterile; "a hinny has a gentler disposition than a mule" zebra - any of several fleet black-and-white striped African equines Equus quagga, quagga - mammal of South Africa that resembled a zebra; extinct since late 19th century