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  • noun Plural form of leghorn.

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Examples

  • The nine remaining tenants are The Stray from Agway, and eight layers—four brown pullets, and four white leghorns.

    MY EMPIRE OF DIRT Manny Howard 2010

  • The nine remaining tenants are The Stray from Agway, and eight layers—four brown pullets, and four white leghorns.

    MY EMPIRE OF DIRT Manny Howard 2010

  • There was a coop of hens—a mix of white leghorns and Barred Rocks—a small grove of citrus, and a red quarter acre of rototilled clay.

    The Dirty Life Kristin Kimball 2010

  • I lost all four leghorns and two of the red-buff pullets.

    MY EMPIRE OF DIRT Manny Howard 2010

  • I lost all four leghorns and two of the red-buff pullets.

    MY EMPIRE OF DIRT Manny Howard 2010

  • I lost all four leghorns and two of the red-buff pullets.

    MY EMPIRE OF DIRT Manny Howard 2010

  • Breeders working over several decades chose the most productive birds to reproduce, resulting in white leghorns that each year can lay 300 to 320 of the large bright-white eggs most popular with Americans.

    Purdue U Researcher Develops 'Kinder, Gentler' Chicken 2010

  • The white leghorns bred by William Muir stand sedately wing to wing, staring back timidly from their cages at a Purdue research farm in northern Indiana.

    Purdue U Researcher Develops 'Kinder, Gentler' Chicken 2010

  • The nine remaining tenants are The Stray from Agway, and eight layers—four brown pullets, and four white leghorns.

    MY EMPIRE OF DIRT Manny Howard 2010

  • The nine remaining tenants are The Stray from Agway, and eight layers—four brown pullets, and four white leghorns.

    MY EMPIRE OF DIRT Manny Howard 2010

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