hemionus

[Gr. hemionos a half-a , a mule; pref. hem i-, and Gr. onos an a .] Zool.: The Kiang or Dshikketee, Asinus hem i onus, a wild a found in Thibet. The fur is short, smooth, and of a bright red-bay, a dorsal streak, but no shoulder cro band; legs straw-colored in summer, whitish in winter. "Mr. Blyth has seen a specimen of the hemionus with a distinct shoulder stripe, though it properly has none." hěm-1-glyph, s. [Gr. hem i =half, and glyphe Darwin: Origin of Species (6th ed.), p. 128. a carving. Arch.: A half-channel at the edge of the triglyph tablet in the Doric entablature.