piebald
Spotted in patches
Piebald describes an animal with irregular patches of two colors, typically black and white: a piebald horse, piebald mice.
The pattern appears random rather than symmetrical.
The word combines pie (from magpie, a black-and-white bird) with bald in its old sense of marked with white.
Piebald sometimes extends figuratively to anything composed of incongruous parts.
Spotted equine or legume
- paintColored coating substance
- brindleStreaky animal coat pattern
- dappledMarked with spots
- mottledHaving irregular color patches
spotted · blotched · flecked · speckled · splotched · variegated · bicolor · particolored
Pieces sewn over holes
- patchworkFabric scraps sewn together
- mosaicInlaid pictorial arrangement
- checkerboardAlternating square pattern
- harlequinMasked comic servant character
motley · hodgepodge · jigsaw · pieced · splotches · blotches · markings · contrast
Domesticated riding animal
- ponyCompact equine breed
- mareFemale adult equine
- stallionIntact male breeding horse
- foalYoung equine, under one
coat · markings · breeding · registry · cob · mustang · pattern · mane
Hereditary information unit
- alleleGene variant at one locus
- dominantHaving superior influence
- recessiveMasked unless paired identically
- phenotypeObservable characteristics of organism
inheritance · mutation · heterozygous · codominance · melanocyte · pigmentation · heredity · breeding
pinto
Spotted equine or legume
mottled · spotted · blotched · flecked · speckled · splotched · variegated · bicolor · particolored · marbled
patches
Pieces sewn over holes
- patchworkFabric scraps sewn together
- mosaicInlaid pictorial arrangement
- checkerboardAlternating square pattern
harlequin · motley · hodgepodge · jigsaw · pieced · splotches · blotches · markings · contrast · asymmetrical
horse
Domesticated riding animal
foal · coat · markings · breeding · registry · cob · mustang · pattern · mane · stockings
gene
Hereditary information unit
- alleleGene variant at one locus
- dominantHaving superior influence
- recessiveMasked unless paired identically
phenotype · inheritance · mutation · heterozygous · codominance · melanocyte · pigmentation · heredity · breeding · expression
cow
Female bovine
rabbit · guinea pig · rat · mouse · snake · bird · python · ferret · coat · fur
- cat coat patternstuxedo cat, tortoiseshell, tabby, calico, tricolor
- dog coatfur pattern, coat length, coat pattern, double coat, single coat
- markingsspots, specks, speckles, lines, dots
- black and whitezebra, panda, orca, penguin, dalmatian
- animal coatscoat, fur, undercoat, hide, fleece
- bird markingsbars, bands, barred, banded, spots
piebaldmonochrome
Single-color rendering
solid · monochromatic · uniform · plain · unpatterned
piebaldhomogeneous
Alike in composition throughout
uniform · monolithic · consistent · undifferentiated · unvaried