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Dorset Horn

 
Dictionary: Dorset Horn

n.
A domestic sheep of a breed having large horns and medium-length, fine-textured wool.

[After DORSET, England.]


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Short wool, meat sheep, with large, curled horns; widely used as fat lamb sire. Wool is medium-fine at 27 microns.

 
 

 

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Dictionary. The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition Copyright © 2007, 2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Updated in 2009. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.  Read more
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