WHITE SHEEP

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does white sheep mean? 

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

1. large white wild sheep of northwestern Canada and Alaska

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• WHITE SHEEP (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Large white wild sheep of northwestern Canada and Alaska

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

Dall's sheep; Dall sheep; Ovis montana dalli; white sheep

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

wild sheep (undomesticated sheep)

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

genus Ovis; Ovis (sheep)

 Context examples 

We drove over to Fifth Avenue, so warm and soft, almost pastoral, on the summer Sunday afternoon that I wouldn't have been surprised to see a great flock of white sheep turn the corner.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)