Definition of Audad

1. Noun. Wild sheep of northern Africa.

Exact synonyms: Ammotragus Lervia, Aoudad, Arui, Barbary Sheep, Maned Sheep
Generic synonyms: Wild Sheep
Group relationships: Ammotragus, Genus Ammotragus

Definition of Audad

1. aoudad [n -S] - See also: aoudad

Lexicographical Neighbors of Audad

auctions
auctorial
auctorial descriptive
auctorial descriptives
auctorum
auctorum non
aucuba
aucubas
aud.
audacious
audaciously
audaciousness
audaciousnesses
audacities
audacity
audad (current term)
audads
audax
audi alteram partem
audial
audibilities
audibility
audible
audibled
audibleness
audibles
audibling
audibly
audience
audience left

Literary usage of Audad

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

1. British Mammals: An Attempt to Describe and Illustrate the Mammalian Fauna by Harry Hamilton Johnston (1903)
"The same feature exists in another sheep, the audad (Ovis lervia] of North ... It is impossible, however, to derive the domestic sheep from the audad for ..."

2. Liberia by Harry Hamilton Johnston, Otto Stapf (1906)
"But beyond all question, though the audad was domesticated by the Ancient Egyptians before they received from Asia their first breeds of true domestic sheep ..."

3. Big Game Shooting by Horatio Gordon Hutchinson (1905)
"Few, if any, British sportsmen seem to have stalked this fine stag in any part of its North-African fastnesses. THE audad The ..."

4. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the High Court of Chancery: During by William Brown, Great Britain Court of Chancery, Edward Thurlow Thurlow, Alexander Wedderburn Rosslyn, Robert Henley Eden Henley (1819)
"BURSLEM. wv~/ 1790. , Lincoln's Inn WHOM AS FERNON, of Hanbury-Hall, com. Worcester, Hali,^ audad Esq. being seised of divers manors, kc. hi the countv of ..."

5. The Geographical Journal by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain) (1898)
"There are the striped hyena, the jackal, the fennic fox, a hare, numerous rats, and jerboas, the porcupine, the wild sheep (audad), a few lingering ..."

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