meaning of mule
1. A hybrid animal; specifically, one generated between an ass and a mare, sometimes a horse and a she-ass. See Hinny.
2. A plant or vegetable produced by impregnating the pistil of one species with the pollen or fecundating dust of another; -- called also hybrid.
3. A very stubborn person.
4. 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. sterile offspring of a male donkey and a female horse
Related Words
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