mountain sheep

English

Noun

mountain sheep (plural mountain sheep)

The argali.
The bighorn (Ovis canadensis) of the Rocky Mountains.
- 1915 April 1, Enos A. Mills, “Wild Mountain Sheep”, in The Rocky Mountain Wonderland, Houghton Mifflin, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 24:
  Wild mountain sheep are perhaps the most accomplished and dare-devil acrobats in the animal world.

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