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/mjuːl/ · noun
The generally sterile male or female hybrid offspring of a male donkey and a female horse..
One day he ran into a herd of a half dozen elk, so he rode his mule down the canyon three or four miles, leaving the sheep alone.
It would be exceedingly interesting to know if the hybrid would reproduce, a matter I deem exceedingly doubtful, for the chances are it would prove a "mule" (infertile).
Vegetable mules supply an irrefragable argument in favour of the sexual system of botany.
The most extraordinary mule, however, that is asserted to have been produced on the Continent, is a cross between the cabbage and horse-radish, which Monsieur Sageret reports that he has obtained […]
"Where in the hell do you think I learned to be such a mule?”
Cocaine packet ingestion (these patients referred to as “mules”) may warrant surgery, Golytely or expectant passage.
“Yeah, in Denver, we know about Uriarte's involvement in meth. Our Las Cruces office seized over six hundred pounds of methamphetamine from two of his mules last year.”
What is less clear, however, is why mint workers should have chosen to produce mules, if they were making forgeries […]
Use mule when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Mule means The generally sterile male or female hybrid offspring of a male donkey and a female horse..
Common synonyms include Missouri canary, donkey, bulldog, mule.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
One day he ran into a herd of a half dozen elk, so he rode his mule down the canyon three or four miles, leaving the sheep alone.
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