单词 | onager |
释义 | onager (once / 75765 pages) 1n 2n WORD FAMILY onager: onagers, onagri USAGE EXAMPLESA third features a lion chomping on the back of an onager — a wild ass — that has just been felled. Los Angeles Times(Apr 13, 2016) He’s used most of the legion’s treasure to purchase Cyclopes-built onagers.’ Rick Riordan, Blood of Olympus(2014) An onager - a member of the horse family at Whipsnade Zoo doesn't seem to be fussed about the snow in his field. Children's BBC(Jan 14, 2013) 1 n an engine that provided medieval artillery used during sieges; a heavy war engine for hurling large stones and other missiles 2Syn|Hyper arbalest, arbalist, ballista, bricole, catapult, mangonel, trebuchet, trebucket engine an instrument or machine that is used in warfare, such as a battering ram, catapult, artillery piece, etc. n Asiatic wild ass Syn|Hypo|Hyper Equus hemionus Equus hemionus hemionus, chigetai, dziggetai Mongolian wild ass wild ass any of several equine mammals of Asia and northeast Africa |
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