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
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
This life table of Ovis dalli shows the number of deaths, number of survivors, mortality rate, and life expectancy at each age interval for Dall mountain sheep.
From Textbooks • Sep. 6, 2018
Pantalaimon flew above Lyra’s head for a while until he tired of that, and then he became a little sure-footed mountain sheep, vain of his horns, leaping among rocks while Lyra scrambled laboriously alongside.
From "The Subtle Knife" by Philip Pullman
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