How to express a One-To-Many relationship in Django?

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I’m defining my Django models right now and I realized that there wasn’t a OneToManyField in the model field types. I’m sure there’s a way to do this, so I’m not sure what I’m missing. I essentially have something like this:

class Dude(models.Model):
    numbers = models.OneToManyField('PhoneNumber')

class PhoneNumber(models.Model):
    number = models.CharField()

In this case, each Dude can have multiple PhoneNumbers, but the relationship should be unidirectional, in that I don’t need to know from the PhoneNumber which Dude owns it, per se, as I might have many different objects that own PhoneNumber instances, such as a Business for example:

class Business(models.Model):
    numbers = models.OneToManyField('PhoneNumber')

What would I replace OneToManyField (which doesn’t exist) with in the model to represent this kind of relationship? I’m coming from Hibernate/JPA where declaring a one-to-many relationship was as easy as:

@OneToMany
private List<PhoneNumber> phoneNumbers;

How can I express this in Django?

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