friesian
IPA: frˈiziʌn
Root Word: Friesian
noun
- A breed of black and white dairy cattle; any indiviual cow of that breed.
- A black breed of horse.
adjective
- Of or relating to the work of Swedish mycologist and botanist Elias Magnus Fries, who described and assigned botanical names to hundreds of fungus and lichen species.
- Alternative form of Frisian [Of, in or relating to the Frisian language or a Frisian language.]
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Examples of "friesian" in Sentences
- They are quite similar to the Friesian horse.
- Friesian Crosses can be any color, type, or size.
- The family of Friesian sheep is a marsh type sheep.
- And the friesian nonsense has nothing to do with this.
- The industrial revolution nearly wiped out the Friesian breed.
- The Friesian horse article addressed that question a while back.
- Crosses between the two are described by the term Holstein Friesian.
- Crosses between the two are described by the term 'Holstein Friesian'.
- The pied pattern of the Holstein Friesian does not appear in the offspring.