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Definition of Ovis canadensis
1. Noun. Wild sheep of mountainous regions of western North America having massive curled horns.
Group relationships: Genus Ovis, Ovis
Generic synonyms: Mountain Sheep
Lexicographical Neighbors of Ovis Canadensis
Literary usage of Ovis canadensis
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Campfires on Desert and Lava by William Temple Hornaday (1908)
"CHAPTER XXIV THE MOUNTAIN SHEEP OF MEXICO Bird's-eye View of the Genus Ovis—Its
Vanishing Point at Pinacate— Straight Ovis canadensis—The Making of a New ..."
2. In the Alaska-Yukon Game-lands by John A. McGuire (1921)
"Below is a list of the mountain sheep given by Miller, together with the type
locality of each: Ovis canadensis canadensis: "Bighorn"; mountains on Bow ..."
3. Ethnozoology of the Tewa Indians by Junius Henderson, John Peabody Harrington (1914)
"Ovis canadensis Shaw. Mountain Sheep, Bighorn. ... meaning originally Ovis
canadensis, mountain sheep). Domestic Sheep. The male sheep is usually called ..."
4. American Big Game in Its Haunts: The Book of the Boone and Crockett Club by George Bird Grinnell (1904)
"These forms, with the localities from which the types have come, are as follows:
Ovis canadensis, interior of western Canada. (Mountains of Alberta. ..."
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