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- Dictionarymule/mjuːl/
noun
- 1. the offspring of a donkey and a horse (strictly, a male donkey and a female horse), typically sterile and used as a beast of burden.
- 2. a hybrid plant or animal, especially a sterile one.
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MULE definition: 1. an animal whose mother is a horse and whose father is a donkey, used especially for transporting…. Learn more.
The meaning of MULE is a hybrid between a horse and a donkey; especially : the offspring of a male donkey and a mare. How to use mule in a sentence.
MULE meaning: 1. an animal whose mother is a horse and whose father is a donkey, used especially for transporting…. Learn more.
Mule definition: the sterile offspring of a female horse and a male donkey, valued as a work animal, having strong muscles, a body shaped like a horse, and donkeylike long ears, small feet, and sure-footedness.. See examples of MULE used in a sentence.
mule 1. n. 1. the sterile offspring of a female horse and a male donkey. Compare hinny. 2. a stubborn person. 3. a hybrid songbird, esp. of the canaryand another finch. 4. any sterile hybrid plant. 5. Slang. a person paid to transport contraband, esp. drugs, for a smuggler.
6 meanings: 1. the sterile offspring of a male donkey and a female horse, used as a beast of burden → Compare hinny1 2. any.... Click for more definitions.
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).
MULE definition: an animal whose mother is a horse and whose father is a donkey (= animal like a small horse) . Learn more.
Word Origin senses 1 to 2 Old English mūl, probably of Germanic origin, from Latin mulus, mula; reinforced in Middle English by Old French mule. sense 3 mid 16th cent.: from French, ‘slipper’.
mule. From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Related topics: Animals, Drug culture, Clothes mule /mjuːl/ noun [ countable] 1 an animal that has a donkey and a horse as parents → stubborn as a mule(1) 2 informal someone who brings illegal drugs into a country by hiding them on or in their body 3 [ usually plural] a woman’s shoe or ...
