Definitions

Sorry, no definitions found. Check out and contribute to the discussion of this word!

Etymologies

Sorry, no etymologies found.

Support

Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word overo.

Examples

  • Hidalgo has Viggo, who can ride, but I would never enter that adorable overo Paint in an endurance competition in the Arabian Peninsula.

    BOOK VIEW CAFE BLOG » 10 Ways to Prove You Didn’t Do Your Horse Homework 2010

  • Hidalgo has Viggo, who can ride, but I would never enter that adorable overo Paint in an endurance competition in the Arabian Peninsula.

    BOOK VIEW CAFE BLOG » 10 Ways to Prove You Didn’t Do Your Horse Homework 2010

  • Chaparral consists primarily of shrub species like the papelillo (Bouganvillea sp.), some cacti and the overo (Cordia lutea) among others and the algarrobal dominated by species of algarrobo (Prosopis spp.) are also vegetative associations of this ecoregion.

    Tumbes-Piura dry forests 2008

  • And an overo horse is a spotted horse with no white over the back.

    Healed by Horses Carole Fletcher 2005

  • A seven-year-old, 15.2-hand, black-and-white overo paint stallion, Playboy is registered under the name B Mr. Playboy McQ.

    Healed by Horses Carole Fletcher 2005

  • After looking far and wide, I found my apprentice—a blue-eyed sorrel overo paint in Cedar Hill, Missouri.

    Healed by Horses Carole Fletcher 2005

  • And an overo horse is a spotted horse with no white over the back.

    Healed by Horses Carole Fletcher 2005

  • A seven-year-old, 15.2-hand, black-and-white overo paint stallion, Playboy is registered under the name B Mr. Playboy McQ.

    Healed by Horses Carole Fletcher 2005

  • A shiny chestnut overo cropout—both her sire and dam were quarter horses—with beautiful blue eyes, bald face, four flashy stockings, fifteen hands high, she was picture-perfect.

    Healed by Horses Carole Fletcher 2005

  • I knew I wanted a black-and-white overo paint as my next trick horse, and I searched for almost two years before finding just the right one.

    Healed by Horses Carole Fletcher 2005

Comments

Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.

  • Distinguished by one blue eye, overos have white markings on their heads, legs, and underbellies.

    November 14, 2022