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Spotted vs Pinto - What's the difference?

spotted | pinto |

As adjectives the difference between spotted and pinto

is that spotted is discoloured by spots; stained while pinto is pied, mottled.

As a verb spotted

is past tense of spot.

As a noun pinto is

a horse with a patchy coloration that includes white.

spotted

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Discoloured by spots; stained.
  • (no comparative or superlative ) Characterized by spots (used especially of animals and plants).
    • the spotted hyena

    Synonyms

    * (discoloured by spots ): blotched, blotchy, stained, spotty

    Verb

    (head)
  • (spot)

    • Derived terms

    * spotted bowerbird * spotted cucumber * spotted dick * spotted dolphin * spotted eagle ray * spotted fever * spotted nothura * spotted redshank * spotted tree

    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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