DictionaryRoot: mulus
Latin

mulus

mule

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A simple animal-parentage composition: an adult male donkey and an adult horse mare above, with two small converging arrows leading to their mule foal below.
noun

mule

MYOOL/mjuːl/

The offspring of a horse and a donkey.

Etymology

Latin mulus already named this hybrid animal. More precisely, a mule is the offspring of a male donkey and a mare; the reverse cross is called a hinny.

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