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mountain sheep

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mountain sheep
n.
1. See bighorn.
2. A wild sheep inhabiting a mountainous area.
mountain sheep
n
1. (Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Animals) another name for bighorn
2. (Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Animals) any wild sheep inhabiting mountainous regions
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Noun1.mountain sheep - any wild sheep inhabiting mountainous regionsmountain sheep - any wild sheep inhabiting mountainous regions
wild sheep - undomesticated sheep
bighorn sheep, Ovis canadensis, Rocky Mountain bighorn, Rocky Mountain sheep, cimarron, bighorn - wild sheep of mountainous regions of western North America having massive curled horns
moufflon, mouflon, Ovis musimon - wild mountain sheep of Corsica and Sardinia
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This animal is commonly called the mountain sheep, and is often confounded with another animal, the "woolly sheep," found more to the northward, about the country of the Flatheads.
The Adventures of Captain Bonneville, U.S.A., in the Rocky Mountains and the far West by Irving, Washington View in context
 
 
 
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