onager

/on-uh-jer/US // ˈɒn ə dʒər //UK // (ˈɒnədʒə) //

采访者,采访对象,采访员,采访

Definitions

n.名词 noun

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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.

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.