Crossword clues for mouflon
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
alt. A species of wild sheep, (taxlink Ovis aries musimon subspecies noshow=1), endemic to Sardinia and Corsica. (From 1765-75.) n. A species of wild sheep, (taxlink Ovis aries musimon subspecies noshow=1), endemic to Sardinia and Corsica. (From 1765-75.)
WordNet
n. wild short-fleeced mountain sheep of Corsica and Sardinia [syn: moufflon, Ovis musimon]
Wikipedia
The mouflon (Ovis orientalis orientalis group) is a subspecies group of the wild sheep (Ovis orientalis). Populations of O. orientalis can be partitioned into the mouflons (orientalis group) and the urials (vignei group). The mouflon is thought to be one of the two ancestors for all modern domestic sheep breeds.
Usage examples of "mouflon".
They work well, especially if you need to travel, but sometimes I folded them over, or stuffed them with mouflon wool, or fur, or even bird down.
Wild goats and mouflon, usually mountain-dwelling, took to the open plains in the cold northern lands, and mingled at watering places with small family groups of saiga antelope, and larger herds of steppe horses.
As chance provided, the white wool of mouflon which was shed naturally by the wild sheep in spring, the unbelievably soft earthy-brown downy wool of musk-ox, and the lighter red rhinoceros underwool were also gathered with great enthusiasm.
I had better keep my leather straps handy, and the mouflon wool Nezzie gave me.
Jondalar noticed a family of mouflon, and he pointed out the wild sheep with huge horns that curled around close to their heads.
Except for some mouflon, with their tightly curled wool coats thickened for winter, and heavy curling horns, the only animals they saw were a few rock marmots.
Instead mouflon, chamois, and ibex had migrated down from their high summer habitat, and Jondalar had never seen so many musk-oxen.
Inside was a loose-fitting liner of felt, made from the wool of mouflon that warn wetted and pounded together until it matted.
The common people preferred attacking the gazelle, the oryx, the mouflon sheep, the ibex, the wild ox, and the ostrich, but did not disdain more humble game, such as the porcupine and long-eared hare: nondescript packs, in which the jackal and the hyena ran side by side with the wolf-dog and the lithe Abyssinian greyhound, scented and retrieved for their master the prey which he had pierced with his arrows.
The mouflon horns are pretty typical of the time period and the culture.
Labyrinth where, according to Shahin, the switchbacks and ledges were so treacherous that even wild goats and mouflon rarely ventured there.
He had shot chamois and mouflon and red deer in the Pyrenees, but a wild African elephant is none of these timid creatures, and the Spaniard's heart was thudding into his ribs, his spectacles were fogged with sweat, and his hands shook.
Why the Asian mouflon sheep (ancestor of our domestic sheep), but not North American bighorn sheep?
That problem also derailed domestication of North American bighorn sheep, which belong to the same genus as Asiatic mouflon sheep, ancestor of our domestic sheep.
Bighorn sheep are suitable to us and similar to mouflons in most respects except a crucial one: they lack the mouflon's stereotypical behavior whereby some individuals behave submissively toward other individuals whose dominance they acknowledge.