MERINO

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does merino mean? 

• MERINO (noun)
  The noun MERINO has 1 sense:

1. white sheep originating in Spain and producing a heavy fleece of exceptional quality

  Familiarity information: MERINO used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MERINO (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

White sheep originating in Spain and producing a heavy fleece of exceptional quality

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

merino; merino sheep

Hypernyms ("merino" is a kind of...):

domestic sheep; Ovis aries (any of various breeds raised for wool or edible meat or skin)

 Context examples 

To begin with, Mr. March wrote that he should soon be with them, then Beth felt uncommonly well that morning, and, being dressed in her mother's gift, a soft crimson merino wrapper, was borne in high triumph to the window to behold the offering of Jo and Laurie.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

"You are not a servant at the hall, of course. You are—" He stopped, ran his eye over my dress, which, as usual, was quite simple: a black merino cloak, a black beaver bonnet; neither of them half fine enough for a lady's-maid. He seemed puzzled to decide what I was; I helped him. I am the governess.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Burdened with the guilty consciousness of the sequestered tarts, and fearing that Dodo's sharp eyes would pierce the thin disguise of cambric and merino which hid their booty, the little sinners attached themselves to 'Dranpa', who hadn't his spectacles on.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Georgiana added to her How d'ye do? several commonplaces about my journey, the weather, and so on, uttered in rather a drawling tone: and accompanied by sundry side-glances that measured me from head to foot—now traversing the folds of my drab merino pelisse, and now lingering on the plain trimming of my cottage bonnet.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)