Ovis aries

Thesaurus

Noun

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Ovis aries - any of various breeds raised for wool or edible meat or skin domestic sheep genus Ovis, Ovis - sheep sheep - woolly usually horned ruminant mammal related to the goat Cotswold - sheep with long wool originating in the Cotswold Hills Hampshire down, Hampshire - British breed of hornless dark-faced domestic sheep Lincoln - long-wooled mutton sheep originally from Lincolnshire Exmoor - horned sheep of Devon; valued for mutton Cheviot - hardy hornless sheep of the Cheviot Hills noted for its short thick wool caracul, karakul, broadtail - hardy coarse-haired sheep of central Asia; lambs are valued for their soft curly black fur longwool - a domestic long-wool sheep merino, merino sheep - white sheep originating in Spain and producing a heavy fleece of exceptional quality Rambouillet - hardy sheep developed from the merino producing both good mutton and fine wool mouton, mutton - meat from a mature domestic sheep lamb - the flesh of a young domestic sheep eaten as food