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Definitions of piebald in various dictionaries:
adj - having sections or patches colored differently and usually brightly
A piebald animal, especially a horse.
noun - a spotted animal
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| It's a 7-letter term for an animal whose coat has patches of 2 or more colors |
| 7-letter adjective meaning multicolored, like some horses or birds |
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| having sections or patches colored differently and usually brightly |
| (of an animal, especially a horse) having a pattern of two different colours of hair, especially black and white: |
| Spotted or patched, especially in black and white: a piebald horse. |
| A piebald animal, especially a horse. |
| (of a horse) having irregular patches of two colours, typically black and white. |
| A piebald horse. |
| a piebald horse. |
| Piebald description |
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A piebald or pied animal is one that has a pattern of pigmented spots on an unpigmented (white) background of hair, feathers or scales. The spots are pigmented in shades of black and/or yellow as determined by the genotype controlling the color of the animal. The animal's skin underneath its coat may or may not be pigmented under the spots but the skin in the white background is not pigmented. * Location of the pigmented spots is dependent on the migration of melanoblasts (primordial pigment cells) from the neural crest to paired bilateral locations in the skin of the early embryo. The resulting pattern appears symmetrical only if melanoblasts migrate to both locations of a pair and proliferate to the same degree in both locations. The appearance of symmetry can be obliterated if the proliferation of the melanocytes (pigment cells) within the developing spots is so great that the sizes of the spots increase to the point that some of the spots merge, leaving only small areas of the wh |