Shorthorn
noun
one of an English breed of red, white, or roan beef cattle, some having short horns and some naturally hornless.
Shorthorn
American
[shawrt-hawrn]
/ ˈʃɔrtˌhɔrn /
noun
shorthorn
British
/ ˈʃɔːtˌhɔːn /
noun
Etymology
Origin of Shorthorn
Example Sentences
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When she recognizes a village, “where my father lost our red Shorthorn in a game of forty-five,” we suspect that money is short and her father unreliable.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 9, 2026
Swona's cattle originated from a cross between Aberdeen Angus and Shorthorn stock.
From BBC ● Sep. 13, 2025
Hill also has Herefords, an English breed known for its fertility, as well as Beefmasters, a composite breed of Herefords, Brahmans and Shorthorn cattle that are more tolerant of drought.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 9, 2021
The joint’s pièce de résistance is Wagyu beef – Japanese Black, Japanese Polled, Japanese Brown and Japanese Shorthorn – the finest of fine steaks real money can buy.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 11, 2015
This was shown at the great sale of Shorthorn cattle and Southdown sheep which the Prince held at Sandringham, at the time of the Royal Agricultural Show at Norwich, in July 1886.
From Speeches and Addresses of H. R. H. the Prince of Wales: 1863-1888 by Edward VII
With common meats like the Durham shorthorn cattle coming in and out of the San Francisco company, the head of the business had an urge to move toward a more niche meat market.
From Washington Times ● Oct. 26, 2016
Sam Rayburn, 58, of Bonham, Tex., bachelor, shorthorn breeder, and for seven years a moderator of the New Deal, was waiting to speak his piece.
From Time Magazine Archive
Runner-up was a shorthorn called Illini Major, raised on the College Farms of the University of Illinois.
From Time Magazine Archive
In Buffalo Park, at Wainwright, Alberta, some of the shaggy loggerheads were experimentally crossed with Angus, Hereford and shorthorn cows.
From Time Magazine Archive
The shorthorn bulls of Hereford bore little resemblance to the longhorns of Craven.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
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