Usually means: Cattle breed, known for meat.
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  1. shorthorn: Merriam-Webster
  2. shorthorn: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. shorthorn: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. shorthorn: Collins English Dictionary
  5. shorthorn: Vocabulary.com
  6. Shorthorn, shorthorn: Wordnik
  7. shorthorn: Wiktionary
  8. shorthorn: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. shorthorn: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. Shorthorn: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. shorthorn: Dictionary.com
  12. Shorthorn: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. Shorthorn: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. shorthorn: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  15. Shorthorn: Rhymezone
  16. Shorthorn: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. shorthorn: FreeDictionary.org
  18. shorthorn: Mnemonic Dictionary
  19. shorthorn: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. shorthorn: Encyclopedia

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  1. Shorthorn: Medical dictionary

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  1. shorthorn: Urban Dictionary

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▸ adjective:  Describing cattle that have distinctively short horns.
▸ noun:  One of a breed of cattle, originating in England, with distinctively short horns (in contrast to longhorn cattle).

Similar:
Durham, bull-necked, Dutch-buttocked, bullnosed, bellowsed, boattailed, cow-hocked, highbred, brokeback, cold-blooded, more...

Opposite:
longhorn, tallhorn

Phrases:
shorthorn cattle, milking shorthorn, dairy shorthorn, beef shorthorn, polled shorthorn, more...

Adjectives:
celtic, white, bred, modern, pure, old, eighths, red, purebred, hereford, average

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Similar:
Durham, bull-necked, Dutch-buttocked, bullnosed, bellowsed, boattailed, cow-hocked, highbred, brokeback, cold-blooded, more...

Opposite:
longhorn, tallhorn

Phrases:
shorthorn cattle, milking shorthorn, dairy shorthorn, beef shorthorn, polled shorthorn, poll shorthorn cattle, australian illawarra shorthorn, milking shorthorn cattle, more...

Adjectives:
celtic, white, bred, modern, pure, old, eighths, red, purebred, hereford, average



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