How do you use Landrace in a sentence? See 6 example sentences showing how this word appears in different contexts, plus the exact meaning.
Landrace meaning
Any local variety of a domesticated animal or plant species that has adapted over time to its ecological and cultural environment (including, in some cases, its work).
Using Landrace
- The main meaning on this page is: Any local variety of a domesticated animal or plant species that has adapted over time to its ecological and cultural environment (including, in some cases, its work).
Context around Landrace
- Average sentence length in these examples: 22 words
- Position in the sentence: 1 start, 3 middle, 2 end
- Sentence types: 6 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Landrace
- In this selection, "landrace" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 22 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, champion, define, vegetable, gilt and adaptation stand out and add context to how "landrace" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include and one landrace of barley and breeding or landrace adaptation after. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "landrace" sits close to words such as aaas, aacc and aacs, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with landrace
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
She would also win the Champion Landrace Gilt. (8 words)
Shahid identified three different ‘landraces’ of wheat and one ‘landrace’ of barley during his studies. (15 words)
Landrace’s flour comes from two millers, who use traditional stone mills to grind traditional strains of British wheat. (19 words)
The Heritage Seed Library holds the National Collection of Heritage Vegetables, and through active conservation protects up to 800 heritage, heirloom and landrace vegetable varieties that would otherwise have been lost forever. (32 words)
However, more recent study indicates that there was only one wild species and all different body types were entirely a result of selective breeding or landrace adaptation after domestication. (29 words)
However, the term is sometimes used in a very broad sense to define landrace animals, or naturally selected horses of a common phenotype located within a limited geographic region. (29 words)
Example sentences (6)
The Heritage Seed Library holds the National Collection of Heritage Vegetables, and through active conservation protects up to 800 heritage, heirloom and landrace vegetable varieties that would otherwise have been lost forever.
Landrace’s flour comes from two millers, who use traditional stone mills to grind traditional strains of British wheat.
Shahid identified three different ‘landraces’ of wheat and one ‘landrace’ of barley during his studies.
She would also win the Champion Landrace Gilt.
However, more recent study indicates that there was only one wild species and all different body types were entirely a result of selective breeding or landrace adaptation after domestication.
However, the term is sometimes used in a very broad sense to define landrace animals, or naturally selected horses of a common phenotype located within a limited geographic region.