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Pinto vs Pied - What's the difference?

pinto | pied |

As adjectives the difference between pinto and pied

is that pinto is pied, mottled while pied is decorated or colored in blotches.

As a noun pinto

is a horse with a patchy coloration that includes white.

As a verb pied is

past tense of pi.

pinto

English

Noun

(en-noun)
  • (zoology) A horse with a patchy coloration that includes white.

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Pied, mottled.
  • :* 1963', While Profane, dreamy, went on to tell of his nights with the Alligator Patrol, and how he’d hunted one '''pinto beast through Fairing’s Parish; cornered and killed it in a chamber lit by some frightening radiance. — Thomas Pynchon, ''V.

    • Derived terms

    * pinto bean

    See also

    * American Paint Horse

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    pied

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (pi)
  • (pie)

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Decorated or colored in blotches.
  • * Burton
    • pied coats
  • * Milton
    • meadows trim with daisies pied

    Derived terms

    * pied antelope * pied-billed grebe * pied finch * pied flycatcher * Pied Piper

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