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pin·to (p

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n. pl. pin·tos or pin·toes

A horse with patchy markings of white and another color. Also called paint.

adj.

Mottled; pied.

[Spanish, piebald, spotted, from Vulgar Latin *pnctus, past participle of Latin pingere, to paint; see peig- in Indo-European roots.]

pinto [ˈpɪntəʊ] US and Canadian

adj

(Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Zoology) marked with patches of white; piebald

n pl -tos

(Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Animals) a pinto horse

[from American Spanish (originally: painted, spotted), ultimately from Latin pingere to paint]

pinto - As in horse and beans, it is Spanish for "painted, mottled, spotted."

See also related terms for spotted.

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Noun

pinto - a spotted or calico horse or pony

Equus caballus, horse - solid-hoofed herbivorous quadruped domesticated since prehistoric times

Translations

pinto (US)

adj horse → scheckig

n → Schecke mf

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