Mule

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1. Noun

A hybrid animal; specifically, one generated between an ass and a mare, sometimes a horse and a she-ass. See Hinny.

2. Noun

A plant or vegetable produced by impregnating the pistil of one species with the pollen or fecundating dust of another; -- called also hybrid.

3. Noun

A very stubborn person.

4. Noun

A machine, used in factories, for spinning cotton, wool, etc., into yarn or thread and winding it into cops; -- called also jenny and mule-jenny.

5. Noun

hybrid offspring of a male donkey and a female horse; usually sterile
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