Lexic.us

Definition of Maned sheep

1. Noun. Wild sheep of northern Africa.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Maned Sheep

Literary usage of Maned sheep

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Liberia by Harry Hamilton Johnston, Otto Stapf (1906)
"The maned sheep of the Central Niger regions grow to a very large size, ... EWE OF maned sheep, LIBERIA over, their coloration is usually a uniform reddish ..."

2. British Museum Guides: Vertrbrates by British Museum (Natural History) (1906)
"It has been assumed that the Long-legged and the maned sheep are specifically distinct from the European Ovis aries, but this is not certain. ..."

3. The New Stone Age in Northern Europe by John Mason Tyler (1921)
"ing. Its anatomical characteristics are made up of at least three wild forms. The first of these is the goat-like maned sheep (Ovis trage- ..."

4. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and (1910)
"The ibex U found in the Sinaitic peninsula and the hills between the Nile and the Red Sea, and the mouflon, or maned sheep, is occasionally seen in the same ..."

5. The Uganda Protectorate: An Attempt to Give Some Description of the Physical by Harry Hamilton Johnston (1902)
"VV/) nor the maned sheep of the Nubian and Libyan deserts. The domestic sheep and goats are of those types common to tropical Africa, Arabia, Syria, ..."

6. The Encyclopædia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and by Hugh Chisholm (1910)
"The ibex is found in the Sinaitic peninsula and the hills between the Nile and the Red Sea, and the mou Hun, or maned sheep, is occasionally seen in the ..."

7. The Physical Basis of Society by Carl Kelsey (1916)
"The African maned sheep was nearly domesticated in the Nile Valley. These Asiatic and African forms, Keller thinks, reached Europe via Crete in the days of ..."

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