- one of a breed of black-and-white dairy cattle, raised originally in North Holland and Friesland, that yields large quantities of milk having a low content of butterfat.
- a region in N Germany, at the base of the peninsula of Jutland: a former duchy.
- the usual US and Canadian name for Friesian 1
- a region of N Germany, in S Schleswig-Holstein: in early times a German duchy of Saxony; became a duchy of Denmark in 1474; finally incorporated into Prussia in 1866
