Definition of "leghorns" [leghorns]

• Plural form of leghorn. (noun)

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• "The white leghorns bred by William Muir stand sedately wing to wing, staring back timidly from their cages at a Purdue research farm in northern Indiana."
• "Breeders working over several decades chose the most productive birds to reproduce, resulting in white leghorns that each year can lay 300 to 320 of the large bright-white eggs most popular with Americans."
• "The nine remaining tenants are The Stray from Agway, and eight layers—four brown pullets, and four white leghorns."