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Mountain sheep   /mˈaʊntən ʃip/   Listen
Mountain sheep

noun
1.
Any wild sheep inhabiting mountainous regions.



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Rocky Mountain sheep


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"Mountain sheep" Quotes from Famous Books



... mountain sheep were sweeter, But the valley sheep were fatter; We therefore deemed it meeter To carry off the latter. We made an expedition; We met a force, and quelled it; We took a strong position, And killed ...
— The Squire of Sandal-Side - A Pastoral Romance • Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr
... proved upon closer acquaintance to be as large as a fallow-deer. From the huge wrinkled horns, and other marks, I knew it to be the argali, or wild sheep, known among hunters by the name of the 'bighorn,' and sometimes spoken of in books as the 'Rocky Mountain sheep,' although in its general appearance it looked more like an immense yellow goat, or deer with a pair of rams' horns stuck upon his head. We knew, however, it was not bad to eat,—especially to people in ...
— The Desert Home - The Adventures of a Lost Family in the Wilderness • Mayne Reid


Words linked to "Mountain sheep" :   bighorn sheep, bighorn, Ovis musimon, Rocky Mountain sheep, Ovis canadensis, mouflon, wild sheep, cimarron, Rocky Mountain bighorn, moufflon


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