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Definition of Aoudad
1. Noun. Wild sheep of northern Africa.
Generic synonyms: Wild Sheep
Group relationships: Ammotragus, Genus Ammotragus
Definition of Aoudad
1. n. An African sheeplike quadruped (the Ammotragus tragelaphus) having a long mane on the breast and fore legs. It is, perhaps, the chamois of the Old Testament.
Definition of Aoudad
1. Noun. The Barbary sheep, ''Ammotragus lervia'' ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Aoudad
1. a wild sheep [n -S]
Medical Definition of Aoudad
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Aoudad
Literary usage of Aoudad
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Sketches in Natural History: History of the Mammalia by Charles Knight (1849)
"UBM . i . res s Ji I The aoudad, as it is called by the Moors of ... The aoudad
is wonderfully agile, and leaps with amazing precision to great distances, ..."
2. The Illustrated Natural History by John George Wood (1865)
"The aoudad is a native of Northern Africa, and is a mountain-dweller, ...
The height of the aoudad is rather more than three feet at the shoulder, ..."
3. The Weekly Visitor by Religious Tract Society (Great Britain) (1835)
"Its name, in the Arabic dialect of that country, is aoudad ; but from the ...
In its manner, as it is observed in captivity, the aoudad resembles the rest ..."
4. Campfires on Desert and Lava by William Temple Hornaday (1908)
"... of the Barbary States of north Africa to its jumping-off place at Pinacate
and in Lower California. The series runs in the following order: aoudad, ..."
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