mountain sheep
Americannoun
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the bighorn.
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any of various wild sheep inhabiting mountains.
noun
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another name for bighorn
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any wild sheep inhabiting mountainous regions
Etymology
Origin of mountain sheep
An Americanism dating back to 1795–1805
Example Sentences
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His hardy upland flock of Scotch Blackface and Welsh mountain sheep spend nine-and-a-half months of the year on the moor, where they are most vulnerable to theft.
From BBC • Feb. 27, 2025
An example of a life table is shown in Table 36.1 from a study of Dall mountain sheep, a species native to northwestern North America.
From Textbooks • Jun. 9, 2022
They then compared it with modern head-butters: muskoxen, argali mountain sheep and Himalayan blue sheep.
From New York Times • Jun. 2, 2022
Above me, petroglyphs dating back 4,000 years appeared in the form of spears, mountain sheep, and human figures.
From Seattle Times • Nov. 14, 2021
They clambered up the paths that the mountain sheep and goats made, and then they scrambled up rocks until they were high in the mountain.
From "Norse Mythology" by Neil Gaiman
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