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“The lambs appear to display the body wrinkle that was common in merinos in the middle of last century, a feature originally selected to maximise skin surface area and wool yields.”

From The Guardian • Mar. 18, 2019

It races past nickel, lead and gold mines, flocks of fleecy merinos, smelters, slag heaps, ports and forests.

From Time Magazine Archive

The merinos are considered very voracious, and not very prolific; they yield but little milk, and are very subject to cutaneous diseases.

From The Romance of Industry and Invention by Cochrane, Robert

Fleischmann, on German sheep crossed with merinos, ii. 88-89.

From The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication, Volume II (of 2) by Darwin, Charles

"I suppose the dress is the first thing, Daisy," he said, as we entered the great establishment where everything was to be had; and he inquired for the counter where we should find merinos.

From Daisy by Warner, Susan