英语词汇“european mouflon”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

1. Originally (now more fully European mouflon): a small wild sheep with brown wool, Ovis musimon, found on Sardinia, Corsica, and Cyprus. Later also (in full Asiatic mouflon): the closely related wild sheep O. orientalis, found from Iran to Asia Minor. Formerly also: †any of various other wild sheep of the Old World; esp. (more fully †maned mouflon, †ruffed mouflon) the Barbary sheep, Ammotragus lervia (obsolete).The mouflon O. musimon is usually thought to be a feral descendant of primitive domestic sheep ( O. aries). O. musimon and O. orientalis may be conspecific, and both forms are now sometimes included in O. aries.

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the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > group Ruminantia (sheep, goats, cows, etc.) > [noun] > family Bovidae > subfamily Ovinae > genus Ammotragus (aoudad)

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1635 J. Swan Speculum Mundi ix. §1. 446 In the countrey of Sardinia there is a certain beast which they call a Muflo... It hath a skinne and hairs like unto a Deer or Hart, crooked horns like unto a Ramme, which bend backward about the eares.]

1774 O. Goldsmith Hist. Earth III. 39 The moufflon, which is the sheep in a savage state, is a bold, fleet creature.

1792 J. Belknap Hist. New-Hampsh. III. 144 The breed might be renewed and improved by importing from Barbary the mufflon.

1801 G. Shaw Gen. Zool. II. ii. 382 The Corsican Argali or Mouflon of Buffon, is of a darker colour than the Asiatic kind.

1843 J. Saunders in C. Knight London V. cxvii. 261 In the centre..is a curious little open hut, with projecting eaves... A horned sheep, the mouflon, is confined in it.

1864 J. Ormsby Autumn Rambles in N. Afr. 70 The Feshtall is the maned moufflon of the Atlas.

1888 Encycl. Brit. XXIII. 635/1 Of ruminants..we find one mufflon (Musimon vignei).

1890 Cent. Dict. at Mouflon Ruffed mouflon, same as aoudad.

1905 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Mar. 321/2 A large number of gazelle and muflon—Barbary wild sheep—were allowed to roam at will.

1932 J. S. Huxley Probl. Relative Growth iii. 88 The adult wild Mouflon ewe is in its proportions but little in advance of the improved Suffolk lamb.

1974 Environmental Conservation 1 9/1 Antelope, mouflon, and ostriches, have been exterminated over large areas.

1993 Times Lit. Suppl. 17 Sept. 11/3 Domestic sheep are descended from a grazer, the wild Asiatic mouflon, Ovis orientalis.

1998 Jrnl. Heredity 89 113 Our data supports the hypothesis that some modern domestic sheep and European mouflon derive from a common ancestor and provide evidence of an additional wild ancestor..which has yet to be identified.

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释义	> as lemmas European mouflon 1. Originally (now more fully European mouflon): a small wild sheep with brown wool, Ovis musimon, found on Sardinia, Corsica, and Cyprus. Later also (in full Asiatic mouflon): the closely related wild sheep O. orientalis, found from Iran to Asia Minor. Formerly also: †any of various other wild sheep of the Old World; esp. (more fully †maned mouflon, †ruffed mouflon) the Barbary sheep, Ammotragus lervia (obsolete).The mouflon O. musimon is usually thought to be a feral descendant of primitive domestic sheep ( O. aries). O. musimon and O. orientalis may be conspecific, and both forms are now sometimes included in O. aries. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > group Ruminantia (sheep, goats, cows, etc.) > genus Ovus > [noun] > ovis musimon (moufflon) muffle1601 musmon1601 mouflon1774 muffrone1864 the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > group Ruminantia (sheep, goats, cows, etc.) > [noun] > family Bovidae > subfamily Ovinae > genus Ammotragus (aoudad) aoudad1861 maned mouflon1864 1635 J. Swan Speculum Mundi ix. §1. 446 In the countrey of Sardinia there is a certain beast which they call a Muflo... It hath a skinne and hairs like unto a Deer or Hart, crooked horns like unto a Ramme, which bend backward about the eares.] 1774 O. Goldsmith Hist. Earth III. 39 The moufflon, which is the sheep in a savage state, is a bold, fleet creature. 1792 J. Belknap Hist. New-Hampsh. III. 144 The breed might be renewed and improved by importing from Barbary the mufflon. 1801 G. Shaw Gen. Zool. II. ii. 382 The Corsican Argali or Mouflon of Buffon, is of a darker colour than the Asiatic kind. 1843 J. Saunders in C. Knight London V. cxvii. 261 In the centre..is a curious little open hut, with projecting eaves... A horned sheep, the mouflon, is confined in it. 1864 J. Ormsby Autumn Rambles in N. Afr. 70 The Feshtall is the maned moufflon of the Atlas. 1888 Encycl. Brit. XXIII. 635/1 Of ruminants..we find one mufflon (Musimon vignei). 1890 Cent. Dict. at Mouflon Ruffed mouflon, same as aoudad. 1905 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Mar. 321/2 A large number of gazelle and muflon—Barbary wild sheep—were allowed to roam at will. 1932 J. S. Huxley Probl. Relative Growth iii. 88 The adult wild Mouflon ewe is in its proportions but little in advance of the improved Suffolk lamb. 1974 Environmental Conservation 1 9/1 Antelope, mouflon, and ostriches, have been exterminated over large areas. 1993 Times Lit. Suppl. 17 Sept. 11/3 Domestic sheep are descended from a grazer, the wild Asiatic mouflon, Ovis orientalis. 1998 Jrnl. Heredity 89 113 Our data supports the hypothesis that some modern domestic sheep and European mouflon derive from a common ancestor and provide evidence of an additional wild ancestor..which has yet to be identified. extracted from mouflonn. < as lemmas
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