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palomino
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pal·o·mi·no  (pl-mn)
n. pl. pal·o·mi·nos
A horse with a golden or tan coat and a white or cream-colored mane and tail, thought to have been developed from Arabian stock.

[American Spanish, from Spanish, young dove, perhaps from Italian palombino, dove-colored, from Latin palumbnus, pertaining to ringdoves, from palumbs, ringdove; see pel-1 in Indo-European roots.]

palomino [ˌpæləˈmiːnəʊ]
n pl -nos
(Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Breeds) a golden horse with a cream or white mane and tail
[American Spanish, from Spanish: dovelike, from Latin palumbīnus, from palumbēs ring dove]
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Noun1.palomino - a horse of light tan or golden color with cream-colored or white mane and tailpalomino - a horse of light tan or golden color with cream-colored or white mane and tail
Equus caballus, horse - solid-hoofed herbivorous quadruped domesticated since prehistoric times
Translations
palomino [ˌpæləˈmiːnəʊ] n (= horse) → palomino m
palomino
nPalomino nt


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Visitors will also be enthralled by 'Tapas' Tom Roberts and his majestic Palomino horses, six-year-old Senorita Kristina and her tiny Falabella Spanish ponies and Pepino the clown.
In order for a horse to be part of the Palomino Horse Breeders of America, the horse must stand somewhere between 14 and 17 hands tall and be the color of a US 14 karat gold coin.
However, most colour breed registries that record Palomino horses were founded before equine coat colour genetics were understood as well as they are today, and hence the standard definition of a Palomino is based on the coat colour visible to the eye, not the underlying presence of the dilution gene.
 
 
 
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