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nounlɛˈɡɔːnˈlɛɡhɔːnˈlɛɡhɔrn 1mass noun Fine plaited straw. 细编麦秆 - 1.1count noun A hat made of leghorn.
Example sentencesExamples - A cluster of women, about six, in their white dresses and wide-brim leghorn hats, were on the lawn by the side of the house but too far away to distinguish individually.
2A chicken of a small hardy breed. 来航鸡（一种个小而耐力强的鸡） Example sentencesExamples - It won't say whether it is a Leghorn or a Rhode Island Red but it will guarantee whether an egg is organic or free range.
- White leghorn Wendy was today selected as the champion chicken for this year's Linton-on-Ouse Festival.
- The 23-year-old has 2,000 animals - ranging from Rhode Island reds and leghorns to pheasants, guinea pigs and budgies - at the family farm at Oxspring near Penistone, South Yorkshire.
- To infect the mosquitoes, we used a domestic race of the parasite's natural host, 3- to 4-week-old white leghorn chickens.
- The Mediterraneans, like the leghorn, tend to be more feisty and flighty.
- The team discovered that pieces of cotton wool dabbed with pyrazine and left next to chicken cages led to a five to ten percent increase in the egg mass of Leghorn chickens.
- She was a black leghorn and eager to start a family of her own.
- Hardy and active Leghorns, which originated near the city of Leghorn in Italy, are outstanding egg layers.
- The Leghorn (an important egg-producer) was developed from Mediterranean stock.
- In Leghorn chickens dominant females were found to allocate more testosterone to male eggs, whereas subordinate females allocated more testosterone to female eggs.
- Akbar, a two-and-a-half-year old Leghorn rooster seems to be doing his best to mimic his master.
- Female mosquitoes were blood-fed on anesthetized rats or on infective white Leghorn chicks.
OriginMid 18th century: from Leghorn (Livorno), from where the straw and fowls were imported. proper nounˈlɛɡhɔːnˈlɛɡhɔrn old-fashioned name for Livorno
nounˈleɡhôrnˈlɛɡhɔrn 1Fine plaited straw. 细编麦秆 - 1.1 A hat made of leghorn.
Example sentencesExamples - A cluster of women, about six, in their white dresses and wide-brim leghorn hats, were on the lawn by the side of the house but too far away to distinguish individually.
2A chicken of a small hardy breed. 来航鸡（一种个小而耐力强的鸡） Example sentencesExamples - The team discovered that pieces of cotton wool dabbed with pyrazine and left next to chicken cages led to a five to ten percent increase in the egg mass of Leghorn chickens.
- The Mediterraneans, like the leghorn, tend to be more feisty and flighty.
- White leghorn Wendy was today selected as the champion chicken for this year's Linton-on-Ouse Festival.
- The Leghorn (an important egg-producer) was developed from Mediterranean stock.
- It won't say whether it is a Leghorn or a Rhode Island Red but it will guarantee whether an egg is organic or free range.
- In Leghorn chickens dominant females were found to allocate more testosterone to male eggs, whereas subordinate females allocated more testosterone to female eggs.
- Hardy and active Leghorns, which originated near the city of Leghorn in Italy, are outstanding egg layers.
- Female mosquitoes were blood-fed on anesthetized rats or on infective white Leghorn chicks.
- To infect the mosquitoes, we used a domestic race of the parasite's natural host, 3- to 4-week-old white leghorn chickens.
- The 23-year-old has 2,000 animals - ranging from Rhode Island reds and leghorns to pheasants, guinea pigs and budgies - at the family farm at Oxspring near Penistone, South Yorkshire.
- She was a black leghorn and eager to start a family of her own.
- Akbar, a two-and-a-half-year old Leghorn rooster seems to be doing his best to mimic his master.
OriginMid 18th century: from Leghorn (Livorno), from where the straw and fowls were imported. proper nounˈleɡhôrnˈlɛɡhɔrn |