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pinto

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++朗文当代英语 5++LDOCE 5++朗文 5++
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pin·to /ˈpɪntəʊ $ -toʊ/ noun (plural pintos) [countable]  American EnglishHBA a horse with irregular patterns of two or more colours 杂色马;花斑马 SYN British English piebald
Examples from the Corpus
pintoAt 22 inches and hoofprints the size of half- dollars, the full-grown bay pinto has appeared in several pet store commercials.Borlotti Bean Salad Serves 6 Borlotti beans look like dark-skinned pinto beans.This is all wrong, as chilli should really be made with pinto beans, a member of the kidney bean family.
Origin pinto (1800-1900) American Spanish pinto marked with spots, from Vulgar Latin pinctus painted
pin·to nounChineseSyllable
with a Corpus of horse patterns irregular two


pinto
pinto /ˈpɪntəʊ $ -toʊ/ noun (plural pintos) [countable]
 Date: 1800-1900
 Language: American Spanish
 Origin: pinto 'marked with spots', from Vulgar Latin pinctus 'painted'
American English a horse with irregular patterns of two or more colours
   SYN  piebald British English


pintoBrE /ˈpɪntəʊ/ 🔊NAmE /ˈpɪntoʊ/ 🔊 adjective (NAmE) (of a horse ) with areas on it of two colours, usually black and white 有两色花斑的;(通常指)黑白斑纹的 SYN piebald pinto noun (
plural
pintos
)