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SHEEP
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Woolly usually horned ruminant mammal related to the goat
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("sheep" is a kind of...):
bovid (hollow-horned ruminants)
Meronyms (parts of "sheep"):
trotter (foot of a pig or sheep especially one used as food)
withers (the highest part of the back at the base of the neck of various animals especially draft animals)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "sheep"):
ewe (female sheep)
ram; tup (uncastrated adult male sheep)
wether (male sheep especially a castrated one)
black sheep (sheep with a black coat)
domestic sheep; Ovis aries (any of various breeds raised for wool or edible meat or skin)
Holonyms ("sheep" is a member of...):
genus Ovis; Ovis (sheep)
flock; fold (a group of sheep or goats)
herd (a group of cattle or sheep or other domestic mammals all of the same kind that are herded by humans)
Sense 2
Meaning:
A docile and vulnerable person who would rather follow than make an independent decision
Example:
his students followed him like sheep
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("sheep" is a kind of...):
follower (a person who accepts the leadership of another)
Sense 3
Meaning:
A timid defenseless simpleton who is readily preyed upon
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Hypernyms ("sheep" is a kind of...):
simple; simpleton (a person lacking intelligence or common sense)
Context examples:
An oily substance taken from sheep's wool.
(Lanolin, NCI Dictionary)
I gave him two purses of two hundreds sprugs each, and promised, when we arrived in England, to make him a present of a cow and a sheep big with young.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
Then the peasants made up their minds that they too would fetch some sheep for themselves, a flock apiece, but the mayor said: “I come first.”
(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)
There were also pretty little barns, with china fences around them; and many cows and sheep and horses and pigs and chickens, all made of china, were standing about in groups.
(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)
A measurement of the human anti-sheep IgE antibodies in a biological specimen.
(Human Anti-Sheep IgE Antibody Measurement, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)
Taxonomic family which includes domestic cattle, goats, and sheep.
(Bovidae, NCI Thesaurus)
It affects animals such as cattle, sheep, and goats more often than people.
(Anthrax, NIH: National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases)
B. melitensis is found in goats and sheep and is pathogenic to these species as well as causes brucellosis in humans.
(Brucella melitensis, NCI Thesaurus)
C. fallax is pathogenic when exposed to open wounds on the body and is the causative agent of black leg disease in sheep as well as gas oedema.
(Clostridium fallax, NCI Thesaurus)
Food made from the milk of some mammals, most commonly cows, goats and sheep.
(Dairy Product, NCI Thesaurus)
