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aoudad
[ ah-oo-dad ]
noun
- a wild sheep, Ammotragus lervia, of northern Africa, having a long fringe of hair on the throat, chest, and forelegs.
aoudad
/ ˈɑːʊˌdæd /
noun
- 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
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Word History and Origins
Origin of aoudad1
1860–65; < French < Berber, equivalent to a- masculine singular prefix + udad ram
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Word History and Origins
Origin of aoudad1
from French, from Berber audad
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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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