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Related topics: Animalspie·bald /ˈpaɪbɔːld $ -bɒːld/ adjective HBAa piebald animal has black and white areas on its body 〔动物〕有黑白两色花斑的 a piebald horse 一匹有黑白花斑的马Examples from the Corpuspiebald• Below us the landscape shone in great brown-and-white patterns like the coat of a well-groomed piebald horse.• Now the ship was in orbit, circling low above the surface of this strangely piebald moon.Origin piebald (1500-1600) pie “magpie” ( → MAGPIE) + baldpie·bald adjectiveChineseSyllable animal has white on and a Corpus black areas piebald |