Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A small wild sheep (Ovis orientalis syn. O. gmelini) native to southwestern Asia and islands of the Mediterranean, having a brown coat and, in the male, a white patch on the back and curved horns.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A wild sheep; an animal of the genus Ovis, particularly the musimon, O. musimon.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Zoöl.) A wild sheep (
Ovis musimon ), inhabiting the mountains of Sardinia, Corsica, etc. Its horns are very large, with a triangular base and rounded angles. It is supposed by some to be the original of the domestic sheep. Called alsomusimon ormusmon .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun wild mountain sheep of Corsica and Sardinia
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Descended from a wild sheep called the mouflon, it quickly spread westward to Cyprus, Rhodes and Western Europe.
A Guide to Mexican Butcher Shops Part II: Pork and Lamb 2008
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Descended from a wild sheep called the mouflon, it quickly spread westward to Cyprus, Rhodes and Western Europe.
A Guide to Mexican Butcher Shops Part II: Pork and Lamb 2008
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Descended from a wild sheep called the mouflon, it quickly spread westward to Cyprus, Rhodes and Western Europe.
A Guide to Mexican Butcher Shops Part II: Pork and Lamb 2008
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The mouflon is a large animal; he is fleet as a stag, armed with horns and thick hoofs, covered with coarse hair, and dreads neither the inclemency of the sky nor the voracity of the wolf.
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This was once the hunting grounds for Tito and his Communist elites -- packed with European mouflon, chamois, boar, and bear.
Richard Bangs: Bosnia & Herzegovina, That Unreal Place Richard Bangs 2010
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This was once the hunting grounds for Tito and his Communist elites -- packed with European mouflon, chamois, boar, and bear.
Richard Bangs: Bosnia & Herzegovina, That Unreal Place Richard Bangs 2010
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I shot a mouflon off a mountain top near Fort Davis back in the 80s and there was nothing easy about it.
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Light brown or moorit in colour, they have definite mouflon pattern markings to include white underparts around the eyes, lower jaw, belly, knees and inside lower leg and tail together with a rump patch.
Archive 2007-06-10 2007
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Two rare and endemic herbivores, mouflon (Ovis aries musimon) and Corsican red deer (Cervus elaphus corsicanus), still persist in the Sardinian forests.
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Two rare and endemic herbivore subspecies, mouflon (Ovis aries musimon) and Corsican red deer (Cervus elaphus corsicanus), persist on islands.
chained_bear commented on the word mouflon
See also musmon.
August 26, 2008