merino
noun
one of a breed of sheep, raised originally in Spain, valued for their fine wool.
merinos
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pluralof merino.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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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
I wish you'd ship a few merinos for cross-breeding.
From Settlers and Scouts by Herbert Strang
Besides, as we have already seen, the breeding of merinos is far from being as profitable at this day as it was formerly.
From Travels in the Steppes of the Caspian Sea, the Crimea, the Caucasus, &c. by Xavier Hommaire de Hell
During 1809 and 1810, William Jarvis, our consul at Lisbon, obtained about 4,000 merinos from the confiscated flocks of the Spanish nobles, and imported them to this country.
From Vermont A Study of Independence by Rowland E. (Evans) Robinson
