piebald
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- noun
- /ˈpaɪbɔld/
:
pío
- At the farm, they had a piebald pony that attracted everyone's attention with its striking colors.
Examples
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We spotted a rare piebald deer while hiking, its unusual coat standing out against the green foliage.
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The horse in the pasture was a beautiful piebald, with distinct black and white patches covering its coat.
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Freeman left a runty little piebald with you.
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The big scrapes might be visited and used more often by does than by bucks, as the above photo of a Pennsylvania piebald doe at a scrape last week illustrates.
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It's about a shy fourteen-year-old girl called Velvet whose great passion is horses; she knows her stubborn piebald is something special, and she's going to give him his chance to shine.
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Some wildlife agencies treat white deer, albinos, white deer with otherwise normal pigmentation like brown eyes, and piebalds, which are a mix of white and brown, like a pinto-colored horse as untouchable.
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Synonyms
A horse with large uneven black and white patches on its coat
Compounds
Surface Forms
Etymology
Piebald as a noun means an animal with irregular patches of two or more colors. The word comes from pie, the bird 'magpie' known for black-and-white feathers, and bald, an old word meaning 'spotted' or 'patched', so a piebald is an animal that looks like a magpie in its colors.