Landrace (noun) Definition, Meaning & Examples

noun
  1. an animal breed or plant cultivar that, isolated from other populations of its species, has adapted to its local environment, especially by purposeful means of breeding and agriculture: landraces of rice from Sri Lanka;a Turkish dog that is a beautiful landrace.
  2. any of several widely distributed strains of large, white, lop-eared swine of Danish origin.
noun
  1. a white very long-bodied lop-eared breed of pork pig
  2. a breed of Finnish sheep known for multiple births
  3. an ancient or primitive cultivated variety of a crop plant
Landrace (noun) Definition, Meaning & Examples

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