mountain sheepn.
/ˌmaʊntᵻn ˈʃiːp/, U.S. /ˈmaʊnt(ə)n ˌʃip/ 1. gen. Any of various breeds of sheep developed for mountainous country; a sheep of such a breed. Also: any sheep kept in a mountainous region.Welsh mountain sheep: see Welsh adj. and n. Compounds 1c.
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the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > group Ruminantia (sheep, goats, cows, etc.) > genus Ovus > [noun] > Ovus Aries (domestic sheep) > defined by habitat
mountain sheep1596
fold1669
heath-cropper1819
bush-sheep1870
1596 A. Copley Fig for Fortune 12 To be continually a mountain-sheep Is Cockrell-like, it is a dung-hill braue.
1775 J. Langhorne Country Justice ii. 17 Destin'd here to keep A small Detachment of his Mountain-Sheep.
1829 T. L. Peacock Misfortunes Elphin xi. 141 The mountain sheep are sweeter, But the valley sheep are fatter.
1910 W. de la Mare Three Mulla-mulgars 17 The little coat of mountain-sheep's wool.
1975 Country Life 9 Oct. 942/1 The Castlemartin range..is..a custom-built wintering ground for mountain sheep.
1999 J. Joseph Sel. Poems 30 You..ignored the ravine Where the mountain sheep had died.
2. North American. Either of two similar North American wild sheep, the bighorn or Rocky Mountain sheep, Ovis canadensis, and the Dall sheep, O. dalli.
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the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > group Ruminantia (sheep, goats, cows, etc.) > genus Ovus > [noun] > ovis canadensis (bighorn)
mountain rama1625
mountain sheep1802
bighorn1805
Rocky Mountain sheep1812
cimarron1850
Rocky Mountain bighorn1860
mountain buffalo1868
the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > group Ruminantia (sheep, goats, cows, etc.) > genus Ovus > [noun] > ovis dalli (dall sheep)
mountain sheep1802
mountain buffalo1868
1802 D. McGillivray in Med. Repository (1803) 6 240 The mountain ram, or sheep, though not very often seen, is to be met with, in considerable numbers, in some parts of the mountains.
1837 W. Irving Adventures Capt. Bonneville I. iii. 69 This animal is commonly called the mountain sheep, and is often confounded with another animal, the ‘woolly sheep’ found more to the northward.
1846 R. B. Sage Scenes Rocky Mts. xiv. 121 In size the mountain sheep is larger than the domestic animal of that name, and its general appearance is in every respect dissimilar—excepting the head and horns.
1918 T. Roosevelt in Maine my State (Maine Writers Res. Club) (1919) 21 We had a couple of antelope and a yearling mountain sheep.
1947 Trail & Timberline Feb. 15/2 We saw moose, bear, caribou, mountain (Dall) sheep, and wolves almost every trip.
1992 H. N. Schwarzkopf It doesn't take Hero xii. 202 Brenda and I bought the obligatory second freezer, which was soon jammed with..roasts from moose and mountain sheep.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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mountain sheep
b. With qualifying word denoting the species as African, broad-tailed, Rocky Mountain, wild (see argali n., mouflon n., musmon n.). Also applied to other genera, as †Indian sheep the llama or vicuña (see also Peruvian sheep n. at Peruvian n.1 and adj. Compounds 1b); mountain sheep, the ibex.
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the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > group Ruminantia (sheep, goats, cows, etc.) > family Camelidae (camel) > [noun] > genus Lama (llama)
llama1600
Indian sheep1604
the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > group Ruminantia (sheep, goats, cows, etc.) > family Camelidae (camel) > [noun] > genus Vicugna
Indian sheep1604
vicuña1604
vigogne1660
vigonia1834
the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > group Ruminantia (sheep, goats, cows, etc.) > subfamily Caprinae (goat) > [noun] > genus Capra > capra ibex (European ibex)
stonebuckc1000
rock-goat1574
eveck1585
stambuck1591
ibex1607
rock-buck1681
steinbock1695
bouquetin1783
mountain sheep1807
stonebuck1855
1604 E. Grimeston tr. J. de Acosta Nat. & Morall Hist. Indies i. xxi. 70 Indian sheepe, the which..do serve them as Asses to beare their burthens.
1607 E. Topsell Hist. Foure-footed Beastes 102 An Indian Sheepe, out of the region of Peru.
1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory ii. viii. 158/1 The Arabian broad tailed Sheep.
1748 B. Robins & R. Walter Voy. round World by Anson i. vi. 68 Vicunnas or Peruvian sheep.
1759 O. Goldsmith Bee 13 Oct. 39 She [sc. Mrs. Roundabout] puts me in mind of my Lord Bantam's Indian sheep, which are obliged to have their monstrous tails trundled along in a go-cart.
1804 W. Clark Jrnl. 22 Dec. in Jrnls. Lewis & Clark Exped. (1987) III. 260 Two horns of the animal the French Call the Rock mountain Sheep.
1807 P. Gass Jrnls. 143 The Ibex or mountain sheep.
1818 T. Laurie in Mem. Wernerian Nat. Hist. Soc. (1821) 3 308 Remarks..on the Skin of the Rocky Mountain Sheep.
1858 W. Baird Cycl. Nat. Sci. at Oveæ The moufflon, or wild sheep of Sardinia and Corsica, and the argali, or wild sheep of India and Siberia.
1875 Encycl. Brit. II. 102/1 The Rocky Mountain sheep or goat (Haplocerus laniger),..is closely related to the chamois of Europe.
1879 E. P. Wright Animal Life 161 The Yellow Sheep of Mongolia (Procapra gutturosa).
1881 Scribner's Monthly May 1/1 The American big horn, or Rocky Mountain sheep (Ovis montana Cuv.).
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