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Wild short-fleeced mountain sheep of Corsica and Sardinia
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moufflon
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n. (alternative spelling of mouflon English)
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Mouflon \Mouf"lon\, n. [F. mouflon.] (Zo["o]l.) A wild sheep ( Ovis musimon ), inhabiting the mountains of Sardinia, Corsica, etc. Its horns are very large, with a triangular base and rounded angles. It is supposed by some to be the original of the domestic ...
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n. wild short-fleeced mountain sheep of Corsica and Sardinia [syn: mouflon , Ovis musimon ]
Usage examples of moufflon.
She even learned to skin and cook a moufflon, those are our mountain sheep, and even eat the animal, which is tough as shoe leather and about as palatable.
The pig and the wild boar, the long-eared hare, the hedgehog, the ichneumon, the moufflon, or maned sheep, innumerable gazelles, including the Egyptian gazelles, and antelopes with lyre-shaped horns, are as much West Asian as African, like the carnivors of all sizes, whose prey they are--the wild cat, the wolf, the jackal, the striped and spotted hyenas, the leopard, the panther, the hunting leopard, and the lion.