Crossword clues for moufflon
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 sheep. Called also musimon or musmon. [Written also moufflon.]
Wiktionary
n. (alternative spelling of mouflon English)
WordNet
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.