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Meaning of quagga | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B1
ˈkwaxə

Definitions

  1. A southern-African subspecies of plains zebra, Equus quagga quagga, which went extinct in 1883. The upper parts of the animal were reddish brown, becoming paler behind and beneath, while the face, neck, and fore part of the body were marked by dark stripes.
  2. Ellipsis of quagga mussel.

Equivalents

Afrikaans kwagga
Suomi kvagga
Français quagga
Magyar kvagga
日本語 クアッガ
Polski kwagga
Português quaga quagga
Русский ква́гга

Examples

“I saw a rhinoceros, buffalo (a large herd), eland, quagga, and sable antelope, the most beautiful of all the bucks, not to mention many smaller varieties of game, and three ostriches which scudded away at our approach like white drift before a gale.”

CEFR level

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This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.
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