proper nounˈhɛrɪfədˈherə-
A city in west central England, administrative centre of the county of Herefordshire, on the River Wye; population 55,300 (est. 2009).
noun ˈhɛrɪfədˈherə-
An animal of a breed of red and white beef cattle.
Example sentencesExamples
- A handful of breeders insist there are now only half a dozen herds of thoroughbred Herefords left in Australia.
- By 1920 pure or mixed Herefords and shorthorns accounted for more than a third of the eight and a half million cattle in the region, and Rambouillets and Lincolns made up a significant share of the four and a half million sheet.
- Hoss continued to pitch hay from the bed of the wagon, creating mounds that the herd of his father's favorite Herefords would wade into with abandon.
- In 1909, Marsh concluded that Aberdeen Angus cattle were more inclined to consume locoweed than were Herefords.
- His Angus cows, some a Hereford mix, black and white faces molded into rhetorical Noh masks, were scattered about, grazing on the hardscrabble hillsides.