fat-tailed sheep

[ fat-teyld ]

noun

1. one of a class of sheep with much fat along the sides of the tail bones, raised for their meat and widely distributed in southeast Europe, northern Africa, and Asia.

Word History and Origins

Origin of fat-tailed sheep¹

First recorded in 1835–45

Example Sentences

Somaliland is rich in livestock - its fat-tailed sheep and camels are prized in Gulf states.

From BBC

Mary Ellen McComb learned this lesson the hard way when she adopted two fat-tailed sheep to keep the weeds down at her Northridge home in 1993.

From Los Angeles Times

Mostly, he knows he can’t get his hands on dumba, the cooking fat carved from the lumpy rump of the fat-tailed sheep.

From Washington Post

Great herds of camels, and flocks of big fat-tailed sheep, varying in colour from Vandyke brown to golden auburn, camels carrying fodder, and tribesmen building it into great stacks, round which, but seven feet off, they place fences of a reed which is abundant in swampy places, gave life and animation.

From Project Gutenberg

A flock of black goats and fat-tailed sheep, mingled together, was scattered over the plain, though where they could find sustenance in such a desert, Heaven alone knew.

From Project Gutenberg