leghorn in English

noun
1
fine plaited straw.
2
a chicken of a small hardy breed.
Hardy and active Leghorns , which originated near the city of Leghorn in Italy, are outstanding egg layers.

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1. In some breeds such as the White Leghorn, Broodiness is extremely

2. Livorno, in the Barbarian dialect of the Genovesi, Ligorno; and hence our word Leghorn

3. 8 synonyms for Boater: leghorn, Panama hat, straw hat, Panama, sailor, skimmer, boatman, waterman

4. Lamonas weigh more than the light Leghorn, but less than the large Plymouth Rock and Dorking.

5. At that time the Black Australorp was crossed with the White Leghorn and the Austra White was created.

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7. The Ancona originates from the Italian province of Ancona and was bred from a mixture of breeds including the Leghorn

8. The Iowa Blue's exact origin is unknown, but is the subject of a folk legend that is said to have involved the mating of a White Leghorn hen and a pheasant.

9. The state of being broody 1998 March 6, Cecil Adams, “The Straight Dope”, in Chicago Reader‎[1]: In contrast, egg-producing white leghorn chickens have had the Broodiness bred out of them

10. In the twentieth century it was at first not threatened by imported commercial hybrid layer chickens and the spread of highly intensive chicken farming methods, as breeds such as the Leghorn laid white eggs, while Basque consumers preferred brown.

11. The collapse of the traditional mezzadria system in the 1960s caused a rapid decline in breed numbers, aggravated both by the growth of intensive methods of poultry-farming and by competition from the White Leghorn breed, of which chicks incubated in northern Italy were readily available.