overo

English

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Spanish overo (“piebald”).

Noun

overo (plural overos)

1. A pinto horse with white-over-dark body markings.
   • 1988, Glynn W. Haynes, The American Paint Horse, page 92:

     The dark overo cropouts often have wide blazes on the face and do not have the bald or apron faces that are associated with the overo color pattern.

See also

• sabino
• tobiano

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Spanish

Adjective

overo (feminine overa, masculine plural overos, feminine plural overas)

1. (Chile, Argentina, Uruguay) piebald; mottled