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Pinto vs Punto - What's the difference?

pinto | punto |

As nouns the difference between pinto and punto

is that pinto is a horse with a patchy coloration that includes white while punto is a point or hit.

As an adjective pinto

is pied, mottled.

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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    punto

    English

    Noun

  • (fencing) A point or hit.

    • Derived terms

    * punto diritto * punto reverso (Webster 1913) ----