red poll

red poll
noun
hornless short-haired breed of beef and dairy cattle
Hypernyms: ↑cattle, ↑cows, ↑kine, ↑oxen, ↑Bos taurus

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noun also red polled
1. usually capitalized R&P : a British breed of large hornless fast-growing long-lived dual-purpose cattle that are red with a little white on switch and belly
2. often capitalized R&P : an animal of the Red Poll breed

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one of a breed of red, hornless, dual-purpose cattle, raised originally in England.
Also, Red Polled.
[1890-95]

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red|polled «REHD POHLD», adjective.
having red on the top of the head.
Red Polled or Red Poll,
any reddish, hornless, shorthaired cattle of a breed raised in England.

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