aoudad

[ ah-oo-dad ]

noun

1. a wild sheep, Ammotragus lervia, of northern Africa, having a long fringe of hair on the throat, chest, and forelegs.

aoudad

/ ˈɑːʊˌdæd /

noun

1. a wild mountain sheep, Ammotragus lervia, of N Africa, having horns curved in a semicircle and long hair covering the neck and forelegs Also calledBarbary sheep

Word History and Origins

Origin of aoudad¹

1860–65; < French < Berber, equivalent to a- masculine singular prefix + udad ram

Word History and Origins

Origin of aoudad¹

from French, from Berber audad

Example Sentences

The Aoudad is wonderfully active, and even the young ones bound to an astonishing height.

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The Aoudad was formerly plentiful in Egypt, and even now is found along the Atlas mountain-range.

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Perhaps the Chaldaic "keren" may have been the horn of the Aoudad, or of the animal which will next be mentioned.

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No animals of the chase were seen; but our blacks picked up the dung of the ostrich, and a horn of the aoudad.

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Water must exist underground, if we may argue from the presence of the aoudad and the gazelle.

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