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MOUNTAIN SHEEP
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Any wild sheep inhabiting mountainous regions
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("mountain sheep" is a kind of...):
wild sheep (undomesticated sheep)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "mountain sheep"):
bighorn; bighorn sheep; cimarron; Ovis canadensis; Rocky Mountain bighorn; Rocky Mountain sheep (wild sheep of mountainous regions of western North America having massive curled horns)
moufflon; mouflon; Ovis musimon (wild mountain sheep of Corsica and Sardinia)