onager 的定义
plural on·a·gers, on·a·gri [on-uh-grahy]. /ˈɒn əˌgraɪ/.
- Also called A·si·at·ic wild ass . a near threatened wild ass, Equus hemionus, inhabiting southwestern Asia and formerly distributed also through the Middle East and eastern Asia: the onager is one of the fastest mammals, able to run, and sometimes exceed, 40 miles per hour, and, unlike most donkeys and horses, it has never been domesticated.
- an ancient and medieval military catapult for throwing stones.
更多onager例句
- We then loaded the onager with the acorns, and moved homeward.
- The onager, or wild ass, is not striped like the zebra, and is not near so elegant in figure.
- The vinea and testudo, the catapult onager and balista, were as well known in the tenth century as in the first.
- This is supposed to be of the same pattern which is called an "Onager" in the Latin books.
- The wild ass and onager roamed in small herds between the Balikh and the Tigris.