burro

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a Spanish word meaning "donkey" (= an animal like a small horse with long ears), used in the US to mean a feral donkey (= one that is living wild but was previously kept by people) in the western US, or a small donkey used as a working animal for carrying things:

He rounds up burros, animals he compares to wild mustangs — he is often able to lure them into his corral with barrels of water.

Five burros carried our camping gear.