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• IPA^(key): /ˌæ.pəˈlu.sə/

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From a +‎ Palouse +‎ -a. From the phrase "a Palouse horse", referring to the Palouse River near which they were first encountered by non-Native Americans.^[1] The river is named for the Palouse region; whether the region's name is (an anglicisation of) a francisation of the Sahaptin name of the Palus people or the people's name derives from a French designation of the region as pelouse is unclear.

• Appaloosa

appaloosa (countable and uncountable, plural appaloosas)

1. (US, uncountable) A breed of horse having a spotted rump.
2. (countable) A horse of the breed

Ellipsis of Appaloosa cat, Apaloosa catfish. Shortening of "Appaloosa cat" (itself a shortening of "Apaloosa catfish"), after the Appaloosa (Opelousa) tribe which resided in Louisiana. The tribe's name is Choctaw, the second element of it being losa (“black”); the first element is variously supposed to be a term for "head" or "skull",^[2] "leggings", "moccasins",^[3] or "body".^[4]

• Appaloosa

appaloosa (plural appaloosas)

1. (Southern US) A catfish.
   • 2005, David Francis, The Great Inland Sea, page 141:

     A big fish wends its way towards the shape the light makes, stops and sucks at air. Mottled brown and black, with a pink, appaloosa mouth.

   • 2008, Harry Noble, Me and Burnice: A Simpler Time, page 167:

     On a two-day camp out at Red Bluff on the Angelina River in East Texas, we had out twelve trotlines, fishing for mud, appaloosa, blue and channel catfish.

< English appaloosa

• IPA^(key): /ˈɑpːɑloːsɑ/,
• Rhymes: -oːsɑ
• Syllabification^(key): ap‧pa‧loo‧sa

appaloosa

1. appaloosa (breed of horse)

appaloosa m or f by sense (plural appaloosas)

1. appaloosa (a breed of horse)