- Shetland sheep
- Shetland sheep nounA breed of sheep of Shetland and formerly Aberdeenshire• • •Main Entry: ↑Shetland
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Shetland (sheep) — Shetland sheep have been on the Shetland Isles for over a thousand years, probably brought there by Viking settlers. They are Northern European short tailed sheep, a group which also includes the Finnsheep, Norwegian Spaelsau, Icelandic, Romanov… … Wikipedia
Shetland sheep dog — noun a small sheepdog resembling a collie that was developed in the Shetland Islands • Syn: ↑Shetland sheepdog, ↑Shetland • Hypernyms: ↑shepherd dog, ↑sheepdog, ↑sheep dog … Useful english dictionary
Shetland animal breeds — Shetland has long had its own distinct animal breeds because of the area being made up of remote islands. Most of its breeds however originated from animals brought from Scandinavia by the VikingsFact|date=April 2008. Below is a list of Shetlands … Wikipedia
Shetland Islands — Shetland Islander. /shet leuhnd/ an island group NE of the Orkney Islands: northernmost part of Great Britain. 18,494; 550 sq. mi. (1425 sq. km). Also called Shetland, Zetland. * * * or Zetland Islands Island group (pop., 2001: 21,988), Scotland … Universalium
Shetland, or Zetland, Islands — SHETLAND, or ZETLAND, ISLANDS, forming, with Orkney, a maritime county, in the northern extremity of Scotland, bounded on the north by the North Sea, on the east by the German Ocean, and on the west by the Atlantic. They lie between 59° 51 and … A Topographical dictionary of Scotland
Shetland (disambiguation) — Shetland is an archipelago in Scotland. It may also refer to:*Shetland Cattle *Shetland Pony *Shetland (sheep) *Shetland Sheepdog *South Shetland Islands, a group of islands in the South Atlantic, a dependency of the Falkland Islands *Shetland… … Wikipedia
Shetland — For other uses, see Shetland (disambiguation). Shetland Sealtainn … Wikipedia
Shetland — Pour les articles homonymes, voir Shetland (homonymie). Shetland Sealtainn (gd) … Wikipédia en Français
sheep dog — noun any of various usually long haired breeds of dog reared to herd and guard sheep • Syn: ↑shepherd dog, ↑sheepdog • Hypernyms: ↑working dog • Hyponyms: ↑Belgian sheepdog, ↑Belgian shepherd, ↑ … Useful english dictionary
Shetland — noun 1. an archipelago of about 100 islands in the North Atlantic off the north coast of Scotland • Syn: ↑Shetland Islands, ↑Zetland • Instance Hypernyms: ↑archipelago • Part Holonyms: ↑Scotland, ↑Atlantic, ↑ … Useful english dictionary
