shorthorn
IPA: ʃˈɔrthɝn
noun
- One of a breed of cattle, originating in England, with distinctively short horns (in contrast to longhorn cattle).
adjective
- Describing cattle that have distinctively short horns.
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Examples of "shorthorn" in Sentences
- "shorthorn," with two tail-planes and a low nacelle.
- Type I AFPs are found in winter flounder and shorthorn sculpin.
- They imported cattle and developed their own breed of shorthorn.
- Breeds of cattle known for roans are the Belgian Blue and Shorthorn.
- McDonald owned a large ranch in Kansas, where he raised shorthorn cattle.
- Their lives are closely connected with the history of the Shorthorn breed.
- TH was identified in a small number of Shorthorn cattle in Canada in 1999.
- It belongs to the group of the shorthorn cattle and is relatively primordial.
- Its common names include shorthorn steer's head and few flowered bleeding heart.
- a beautiful beast, a thorough-bred "shorthorn," and she weighed about thirteen hundredweight.
- This finally developed into the carefully streamlined "shorthorn" with the raised nacelle and a single tail-plane.
- But they were many, and we fled before them with our shorthorn cattle, our goats, and our barleyseed, our women and children.
- With Scott on hand to turn back the cattle, Ridge made short work of separating the shorthorn cow and maneuvering her into the smaller pen.
- There was a woman -- on the great drift down out of Europe, a weary drift of many generations, when we brought into India the shorthorn cattle and the planting of barley.
- The 1913 type had two rectangular tail-planes and better seating arrangements, known affectionately as the "mechanical cow"; the same year came the first "shorthorn," with two tail-planes and a low nacelle.
- In the rush of his retreat down the canyon slope, he had plunged into a bunch of shorthorn steers, who, far more startled than he, had rolled him on the forest floor, trampled over him in their panic, and smashed his rifle under their hoofs.
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