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Definition of Ovis ammon
1. Noun. Wild sheep of semidesert regions in central Asia.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Ovis Ammon
Literary usage of Ovis ammon
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Big Game Shooting by Clive Phillipps-Wolley (1894)
"The Ovis Pali appears to have little or no ruff, but has a dark line down Ovis
Ammon Ovis Nivicola the back, which the ovis ammon has not, and has also a ..."
2. Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon by Robert Armitage Sterndale (1884)
"Anyhow it is a valuable specimen.! No. 439. OVIS HODGSONI. The Argali or Ovis
Ammon of Thibet. NATIVE NAMES.—Hvan, Nuan, Nyau, Niar, ..."
3. The Forests of Upper India and Their Inhabitants by Thomas W. Webber (1902)
"... OF THE ' ovis ammon ' THE month of August was now commencing, when the rains
in India are still on with all their force. The monsoon or south-west winds ..."
4. Sport in Many Lands by H. A. L. (Henry Astbury Leveson) (1877)
"THE Ovis AMMON, or nyan, is the largest wild sheep known, as it measures from
... The ovis ammon has enormous horns, much resembling those of a domestic ram ..."
5. Shooting in the Himalayas: A Journal of Sporting Adventures and Travel in by Frederick Markham (1854)
"ovis ammon shooting.—Where found.—Its exceeding shyness.—Ovis Poli.— Hear of
another variety of wild sheep from the Tartars. FROM Gunga, in our route to ..."
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