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Definition of Mouflon
1. Noun. Wild mountain sheep of Corsica and Sardinia.
Group relationships: Genus Ovis, Ovis
Generic synonyms: Mountain Sheep
Definition of Mouflon
1. n. A wild sheep (Ovis musimon), inhabiting the mountains of Sardinia, Corsica, etc. Its horns are very large, with a triangular base and rounded angles. It is supposed by some to be the original of the domestic sheep. Called also musimon or musmon.
Definition of Mouflon
1. Noun. A species of wild sheep inhabiting Sardinia and Corsica. Scientific name: ''Ovis musimon''. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Mouflon
1. a wild sheep [n -S]
Medical Definition of Mouflon
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Mouflon
Literary usage of Mouflon
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Travels and Adventures of Raphael Pumpelly: Mining Engineer, Geologist by Raphael Pumpelly (1920)
"I had the porters take the mouflon out of the heavy cage and hold him by the rope.
... The mouflon came to smell my pockets, then tried at the landlord's. ..."
2. My Reminiscences by Raphael Pumpelly (1918)
"One of the shepherds had a mouflon. The animal had been captured soon after ...
While I camped by the bergerie, I cultivated in my mouflon an inspiring ..."
3. A treatise on sheep by Ambrose Blacklock (1838)
"... all be referred to four species—the Argali of Siberia, the mouflon of Sardinia,
the mouflon of America, and the mouflon of Africa— though to be rigidly ..."
4. Six Months in America by Godfrey Thomas Vigne (1832)
"It may be here added, that Cuvier, when speaking of the mouflon of the Blue
Mountains, informs us, that it is the only quadruped of any size, the discovery ..."
5. London by Charles Knight (1851)
"A horned sheep, the mouflon, is confined in it; an animal so little like its
parents (for it is supposed to be originally but the descendant of some of the ..."
6. Short Stalks: Or, Hunting Camps, North, South, East, and West by Edward North Buxton (1892)
"There are mouflon in Cyprus, and also in the mountains of Tunis, but they are
distinct species from the Sardinian animal, and from one another. ..."
7. Travels and Adventures of Raphael Pumpelly: Mining Engineer, Geologist by Raphael Pumpelly (1920)
"I had the porters take the mouflon out of the heavy cage and hold him by the rope.
... The mouflon came to smell my pockets, then tried at the landlord's. ..."
8. My Reminiscences by Raphael Pumpelly (1918)
"One of the shepherds had a mouflon. The animal had been captured soon after ...
While I camped by the bergerie, I cultivated in my mouflon an inspiring ..."
9. A treatise on sheep by Ambrose Blacklock (1838)
"... all be referred to four species—the Argali of Siberia, the mouflon of Sardinia,
the mouflon of America, and the mouflon of Africa— though to be rigidly ..."
10. Six Months in America by Godfrey Thomas Vigne (1832)
"It may be here added, that Cuvier, when speaking of the mouflon of the Blue
Mountains, informs us, that it is the only quadruped of any size, the discovery ..."
11. London by Charles Knight (1851)
"A horned sheep, the mouflon, is confined in it; an animal so little like its
parents (for it is supposed to be originally but the descendant of some of the ..."
12. Short Stalks: Or, Hunting Camps, North, South, East, and West by Edward North Buxton (1892)
"There are mouflon in Cyprus, and also in the mountains of Tunis, but they are
distinct species from the Sardinian animal, and from one another. ..."
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