Scottish Blackface

noun

1. a common breed of hardy mountain sheep having horns and a black face, kept chiefly on the mainland of Scotland

Example Sentences

In 1996, researchers at the Roslin Institute cloned a cell taken from the mammary gland of a 6-year-old Finn Dorset sheep and an egg cell taken from a Scottish blackface sheep, and the result was Dolly.

From Washington Post

In homage to golf’s roots, it’s a walking-only course where caddies are provided and Scottish Blackface sheep graze the fescue-grass fairways.

From Wall Street Journal

They transferred 277 nuclei from the mammary cell line — from a white-faced breed known as a Finn Dorset — into eggs from the hardy Scottish blackface breed.

From Nature

On Dartmoor, about 370 Scottish blackface ewes were taken from moorland near Princetown over a six-month-period last year.

From BBC

Its two miles of Lake Michigan shoreline are patrolled by a flock of 29 Scottish blackface sheep that spend the day on the course, eating, drinking and making an occasional mess.

From Golf Digest