mouflon
- noun
- /ˈmuːflɒn/
- Specialized
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muflón
- Luckily for wolves, the area boasts plentiful wild prey: red deer, roe deer, the wild sheep known as mouflon, and wild boars.
- mouflon sheep
Examples
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In some areas, the wild sheep known as mouflon serve as a chief prey item for wolves.
Academic text (1996) -
In some areas, the wild sheep known as mouflon serve as a chief prey item for wolves.
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Billy the Kid, now as one real mouflon, I tell you.
Fiction book (1996) -
Same thing happened with the mouflon, where it's an endangered species of sheep.
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He was a handsome mouflon, after all.
Fiction book (1996) -
She'd been expecting it; she'd have to wash herself and her undergarment, but first she needed the mouflon wool.
Fiction book (1990) -
Billy had mouflon horns, two big curls with ridges in them that could cut your finger off.
Fiction book (1996) -
Three distinct sequences matched sequences from a dog, a tick, and a mouflon in Germany, whereas one sequence (468-3) was unique.
Academic text (2012) -
Mouflon, the wild sheep, on the other hand, were expert climbers and used steep terrain to escape, but they could not dig through the snow that piled up.
Fiction book (1990) -
The mouflon is a wild sheep that thrives in mountainous regions with steep terrain.
Synonyms
A wild mountain sheep with short curved horns and brown fur from Corsica and Sardinia
A wild mountain sheep from Corsica and Sardinia with curved horns often thought to be an ancestor of domestic sheep
A wild sheep that lives on steep, rocky mountain slopes
Surface Forms
Etymology
The word mouflon comes from French mouflon, and before that from an older Latin name muflonem for a wild mountain sheep from islands like Corsica and Sardinia. A helpful way to remember it is to think of a mouflon as the wild ancestor of the sheep you know, which is why the name refers to that wild, short-horned mountain sheep.
