equus asinus

English Thesaurus

1. domestic beast of burden descended from the African wild ass; patient but stubborn (noun.animal)

hypernym	:	ass,
definition	:	hardy and sure-footed animal smaller and with longer ears than the horse (noun.animal)

hyponym	:	burro,
definition	:	small donkey used as a pack animal (noun.animal)

hyponym	:	moke,
definition	:	British informal for donkey (noun.animal)

member meronym	:	equus, genus equus,
definition	:	type genus of the Equidae: only surviving genus of the family Equidae (noun.animal)

2. a wild ass of Africa (noun.animal)

hypernym	:	wild ass,
definition	:	any of several equine mammals of Asia and northeast Africa (noun.animal)