friesian
/ˈfɹiːʒən/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: 1.96 in modern English
11
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
1
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A breed of black and white dairy cattle; any individual cow of that breed.
adj
Of or relating to the work of Swedish mycologist and botanist Elias Magnus Fries, who described and assigned botanical names to hundreds of fungus and lichen species.
adj
Alternative form of Frisian.
Example Sentences
- "[...] the more expensive and creamier Jersey or South Devon milk, for example, is kept apart from Friesian milk, with its low butter content."
- "For a hundred years, treatment of the basidiomycetes, which include so many of the larger fungi, has been dominated by the Friesian approach which had—and still has—the attraction of differentiating fungi into groups mainly on field characters."