mouflon
or mouf·flon
[moof-lon]
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noun
a wild sheep, Ovis musimon, inhabiting the mountainous regions of Sardinia and Corsica, the male of which has large curving horns.
Origin of mouflon
1765–75; < French < Italian muflone, orig. dial.; compare Corsican muffolo, Sardinian murone, Late Latin mufrō, stem mufrōn-, presumably < a pre-L substratal language
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What holds good for the buffalo does so also for the mouflon or wild sheep.
Evolution, Old & NewSamuel Butler
When alarmed, the mouflon dash into this cover and are safe.
The Animal World, A Book of Natural HistoryTheodore Wood
There's a desert island in the gean with mouflon that nobody ever succeeds in getting.
The Vanity GirlCompton Mackenzie
These came from Sardinia, where he had been after Mouflon—he had seen the birds, but was too soon for eggs.
Life of Frederick Courtenay Selous, D.S.O.J.G. Millais
The Corsican bandit, like the mouflon of the same island, is nearly extinct.
The Animal World, A Book of Natural HistoryTheodore Wood
mouflon
moufflon
noun
Word Origin for mouflon
C18: via French from Corsican mufrone, from Late Latin mufrō
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