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WILD SHEEP

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Undomesticated sheep

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Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("wild sheep" is a kind of...):

bovid (hollow-horned ruminants)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "wild sheep"):

argal; argali; Ovis ammon (wild sheep of semidesert regions in central Asia)

Marco Polo's sheep; Marco Polo sheep; Ovis poli (Asiatic wild sheep with exceptionally large horns; sometimes considered a variety of the argali (or Ovis ammon))

Ovis vignei; urial (bearded reddish sheep of southern Asia)

Dall's sheep; Dall sheep; Ovis montana dalli; white sheep (large white wild sheep of northwestern Canada and Alaska)

mountain sheep (any wild sheep inhabiting mountainous regions)

Ammotragus lervia; aoudad; arui; audad; Barbary sheep; maned sheep (wild sheep of northern Africa)

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