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Stone sheep

noun

  1. a wild sheep found in the Yukon and the northern Rocky Mountains
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Word History and Origins

Origin of Stone sheep1

C19: after the US naturalist Andrew Jackson Stone, who first discovered the breed in 1896
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Example Sentences

Don Jr’s regular trips to the Yukon mountains to hunt stone sheep are actually kind of pricey – one in August 2017 cost the Secret Service $16,600, according to Politico.

It’s the setting of a fantastical tea party, complete with a host of fanciful guests—stately bronze gorillas, a flock of stone sheep, cabbages that have sprouted legs.

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