NOUN
- white sheep originating in Spain and producing a heavy fleece of exceptional quality
How To Use merino sheep In A Sentence
- One of the iconic images of Australia is the Merino sheep, an extremely woolly, arid-land adapted animal that is the backbone of our wool industry.
- Through this strange festoonery they had to make their way, often for hundreds of yards; the soft silky substance clutching disagreeably around their throats and clinging to their clothes till each looked as though clad in an integument of ragged cotton, or the long loose wool of a merino sheep yet unwoven into cloth. The Castaways
- Cover said the nation's stubborn Merino sheep make Australian trials the toughest in the world and a class above competitions in New Zealand, Britain and South Africa - the other nations who take sheepdog trialing seriously.
- The Central Sheep and Wool Research Institute encourages tourists to become entrepreneurs with a display of livestock of bharat merino sheep, white giant and German angora rabbits.
- The country you enter on the far side of Burke Pass doesn't look like good farmland, but provided the rabbits are under control Merino sheep do well in this seemingly barren unpopulated land.
- The sheep was ideal, the merino sheep because it has big neck folds, the wool breeders grew them with a lot of skin.
- First, it is knitted into a voluminous hat by women in Ariana just to the north of Tunis using imported wool from Australian merino sheep for the deluxe version, local wool for less expensive models.
- The hills were as green as in dreams, merino sheep had green seeds sprouting in their wool.
- The Spanish not only brought much more modern looms but also merino sheep in the hope of replacing one of the most common native wools, camelid.
- The participants and production crew moved to Oxley Downs, six hours drive from Sydney to the property with 12 buildings, a dilapidated garden, horses, chickens, geese, a cow and 1.300 merino sheep.