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Friesian
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English
thumb|Friesian cows
thumb|A Friesian stallion
Pronunciation
en /ˈfɹiːʒən/
en LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-Friesian.wav Southern England
en iːʒən 2
Noun
en breed of dairy cattle A breed of black and white dairy cattle; any individual cow of that breed.
en Holstein#English:_breed of dairy cattle
en 1959 March R. C. Riley Home with the Milk Trains Illustrated 155 [...] the more expensive and creamier Jersey or South Devon milk, for example, is kept apart from Friesian milk, with its low butter content.
en breed of horse A black breed of horse.
Derived terms
en Jersian
See also
Holstein Friesian cattle
Friesian horse
Adjective
Of or relating to the work of Swedish mycologist and botanist Elias Magnus Fries, who described and assigned botanical names to hundreds of fungus and lichen species.
en The Fungi: An Advanced Treatise C. G. Ainsworth; Frederick K[roeber] Sparrow; Alfred S. Sussman New York, N.Y.; London w:Academic Press 1965 volume IVB (A Taxonomic Review with Keys: Basidomycetes and Lower Fungi) 3 https://archive.org/details/fungiadvancedtre0000ains_i9d2/page/3/mode/1up 0-120-45601-X For a hundred years, treatment of the basidiomycetes, which include so many of the larger fungi, has been dominated by the Friesian approach which had—and still has—the attraction of differentiating fungi into groups mainly on field characters.
en Frisian.
See also
en Friesland Linnaean
Anagrams
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en Cattle Horse breeds