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OVIS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Ovis mean? 

OVIS (noun)
  The noun OVIS has 1 sense:

1. sheepplay

  Familiarity information: OVIS used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


OVIS (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Sheep

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

genus Ovis; Ovis

Hypernyms ("Ovis" is a kind of...):

mammal genus (a genus of mammals)

Meronyms (members of "Ovis"):

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

wether (male sheep especially a castrated one)

lamb (young sheep)

domestic sheep; Ovis aries (any of various breeds raised for wool or edible meat or skin)

argal; argali; Ovis ammon (wild sheep of semidesert regions in central Asia)

Marco Polo's sheep; Marco Polo sheep; Ovis poli (Asiatic wild sheep with exceptionally large horns; sometimes considered a variety of the argali (or Ovis ammon))

Ovis vignei; urial (bearded reddish sheep of southern Asia)

Dall's sheep; Dall sheep; Ovis montana dalli; white sheep (large white wild sheep of northwestern Canada and Alaska)

bighorn; bighorn sheep; cimarron; Ovis canadensis; Rocky Mountain bighorn; Rocky Mountain sheep (wild sheep of mountainous regions of western North America having massive curled horns)

moufflon; mouflon; Ovis musimon (wild mountain sheep of Corsica and Sardinia)

Holonyms ("Ovis" is a member of...):

Bovidae; family Bovidae (true antelopes; cattle; oxen; sheep; goats)


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