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WILD SHEEP
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Dictionary entry overview: What does wild sheep mean?
• WILD SHEEP (noun)
The noun WILD SHEEP has 1 sense:
Familiarity information: WILD SHEEP used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Undomesticated sheep
Classified under:
Nouns denoting animals
Hypernyms ("wild sheep" is a kind of...):
bovid (hollow-horned ruminants)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "wild sheep"):
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)
mountain sheep (any wild sheep inhabiting mountainous regions)
Ammotragus lervia; aoudad; arui; audad; Barbary sheep; maned sheep (wild sheep of northern Africa)
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