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How to pronounce “zebra”
Hear “zebra” in real YouTube speech, then study definitions and example sentence snippets.
Pronunciation guide for zebra
- Learning goal
- Practice the English pronunciation of zebra with real speech in context.
- Available examples
- 8 YouTube examples
- Real speech example
- Tanya Berger-Wolf: How your nature photos can help protect wild animals
recognizing zippy the zebra and joe the
- Definition summary
- Any of three species of subgenus Hippotigris: Equus grevyi, Equus quagga, or Equus zebra, all with black and white stripes and native to Africa.
Example 1 of 8
How to pronounce zebra
Tanya Berger-Wolf: How your nature photos can help protect wild animals

recognizing zippy the zebra and joe the
Example Sentences
A Deep Dive Into “zebra”
Meaning
- [Noun]
- Any of three species of subgenus Hippotigris: Equus grevyi, Equus quagga, or Equus zebra, all with black and white stripes and native to Africa.
- (sports, slang) A referee.
- (medicine, slang) An unlikely diagnosis, especially for symptoms probably caused by a common ailment.
- (medicine, by extension) Someone who has Ehlers-Danlos syndrome or hypermobility spectrum disorder
- (derogatory, slang, ethnic slur) A biracial person, specifically one born to a Sub-Saharan African person and a white person.
- (informal) A zebra cichlid (Amatitlania nigrofasciata).
- Any of various papilionid butterflies of the subgenus Paranticopsis of the genus Graphium, having black and white markings.
- A zebra crossing.
- (chess) A fairy chess piece that is moved three squares in one direction and two at right angles to that direction in a single move, leaping over any intervening pieces.
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