DOMESTIC SHEEP

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does domestic sheep mean? 

• DOMESTIC SHEEP (noun)
  The noun DOMESTIC SHEEP has 1 sense:

1. any of various breeds raised for wool or edible meat or skin

  Familiarity information: DOMESTIC SHEEP used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DOMESTIC SHEEP (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Any of various breeds raised for wool or edible meat or skin

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

domestic sheep; Ovis aries

Hypernyms ("domestic sheep" is a kind of...):

sheep (woolly usually horned ruminant mammal related to the goat)

Meronyms (parts of "domestic sheep"):

mouton; mutton (meat from a mature domestic sheep)

lamb (the flesh of a young domestic sheep eaten as food)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "domestic sheep"):

Cotswold (sheep with long wool originating in the Cotswold Hills)

Hampshire; Hampshire down (British breed of hornless dark-faced domestic sheep)

Lincoln (long-wooled mutton sheep originally from Lincolnshire)

Exmoor (horned sheep of Devon; valued for mutton)

Cheviot (hardy hornless sheep of the Cheviot Hills noted for its short thick wool)

broadtail; caracul; karakul (hardy coarse-haired sheep of central Asia; lambs are valued for their soft curly black fur)

longwool (a domestic long-wool sheep)

merino; merino sheep (white sheep originating in Spain and producing a heavy fleece of exceptional quality)

Rambouillet (hardy sheep developed from the merino producing both good mutton and fine wool)

Holonyms ("domestic sheep" is a member of...):

genus Ovis; Ovis (sheep)

 Context examples 

Organisms of the genus Elaeophora infect wild elk and domestic sheep causing ischaemic necrosis of the brain, blindness, and dermatosis of the face.

(Filariasis, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)