Definitions for piebald
ˈpaɪˌbɔldpiebald

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. motley, calico, multicolor, multi-color, multicolour, multi-colour, multicolored, multi-colored, multicoloured, multi-coloured, painted, particolored, particoloured, piebald, pied, varicolored, varicolouredadjective

   having sections or patches colored differently and usually brightly

   "a jester dressed in motley"; "the painted desert"; "a particolored dress"; "a piebald horse"; "pied daisies"

WiktionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. piebaldadjective

   Spotted or blotched, especially in black and white.

2. piebaldadjective

   Of mixed character, heterogeneous.

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Piebaldadjective

   Of various colours; diversified in colour.

   Etymology: from pie.

   It was a particoloured dress,
   Of patch’d and piebald languages. Hudibras.

   They would think themselves miserable in a patched coat, and yet contentedly suffer their minds to appear abroad in a piebald livery of coarse patches and borrowed shreds. John Locke.

   They are pleased to hear of a piebald horse that is strayed out of a field near Islington, as of a whole troop that has been engaged in any foreign adventure. Spectator, №. 452.

   Peel’d, patch’d, and piebald, linsey-woolsey brothers,
   Grave mummers! sleeveless some, and shirtless others. Alexander Pope.

WikipediaRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Piebald

   A piebald or pied animal is one that has a pattern of unpigmented spots (white) on a pigmented background of hair, feathers or scales. Thus a piebald black and white dog is a black dog with white spots. The animal's skin under the white background is not pigmented. Location of the unpigmented 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 white background among the spots and at the tips of the extremities. Animals with this pattern may include birds, cats, cattle, dogs, foxes, horses, cetaceans, deer, pigs, and snakes. Some animals also exhibit colouration of the irises of the eye that match the surrounding skin (blue eyes for pink skin, brown for dark). The underlying genetic cause is related to a condition known as leucism. In medieval English "pied" indicated alternating contrasting colours making up the quarters of an item of costume or livery device in heraldry. Court jesters and minstrels are sometimes depicted in pied costume; this is the origin of the name of the Pied Piper of Hamelin.

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1. piebald

   Piebald refers to an animal, especially a horse, having a pattern of irregular patches of two colors, typically black and white. It can also describe any other things that have contrasting colors in irregular patches or spots.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Piebaldadjective

   having spots and patches of black and white, or other colors; mottled; pied

2. Piebaldadjective

   fig.: Mixed

3. Etymology: [Pie the party-colored bird + bald.]

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1. Piebald

   A piebald or pied animal is one that has a spotting pattern of large unpigmented, usually white, areas of hair, feathers, or scales and normally pigmented patches, generally black. The colour of the animal's skin underneath its coat is also pigmented under the dark patches and unpigmented under the white patches. This alternating colour pattern is irregular and asymmetrical. Animals with this pattern may include horses, dogs, birds, cats, pigs, and cattle, as well as snakes such as the ball python. Some animals also exhibit colouration of the irises of the eye that match the surrounding skin. The underlying genetic cause is related to a condition known as leucism.

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1. Piebald

   Pyebald, pī′bawld, adj. of various colours: having spots and patches. [For pie-balled—pie, a magpie, W. bal, a streak on a horse's forehead.]

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of piebald in Chaldean Numerology is: 6

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of piebald in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4

Examples of piebald in a Sentence

1. Christian Yates:

   Traditionally people thought that cells didn't make it to the front of embryos to pigment the belly because they just weren't migrating fast enough, what we've been able to show through our studies is that actually, if anything, cells in piebald animals migrate faster but they're just not proliferating enough. They're not making enough daughter cells to colonize - or cover - the whole region of the skin that needs to be covered by the time the pigmentation pattern is set down.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=piebald
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Piebald
3. ^ Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
   https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=piebald
4. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piebald
5. ^ ChatGPT
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6. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/piebald
7. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=piebald
8. ^ Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
   https://www.gutenberg.org/files/37683/37683-h/37683-h.htm#:~:text=piebald