urialn.
/ˈʊərɪəl/ A wild sheep, a subspecies of Ovis orientalis, having a reddish coat and long, curved horns, found in northern India and other parts of central Asia.
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1860 P. L. Sclater in Proc. Zool. Soc. XXVIII. 127 The Koch, or Oorial of the Sulimani Range, has already been well described.
1887 Athenæum 31 Dec. 897/3 The Secretary..exhibited..a pair of horns of the oorial.
1898 Contemp. Rev. Dec. 878 Oorial and snow leopards abound on the mountains.
1898 R. Lydekker Wild Oxen 172 The urial, as this sheep is termed in the Salt Range and other districts of the Punjab, is not entitled to specific separation from the sha of Astor and Ladak.
1912 R. Lydekker Sheep & its Cousins xiii. 263 The range of the urial is very wide.
1928 V. G. Childe Most Anc. East ix. 201 The foot-hills to the north and west are still the haunts of urial sheep.
1950 T. Longstaff This my Voy. ix. 180 We were astonished to see a herd of urial.
1969 J. Fisher et al. Red Bk. 168/1 The group of sheep known as Asiatic mouflon, red sheep, and urial are all forms of Ovis orientalis.
1977 G. B. Schaller Mountain Monarchs ix. 227 Urial ewes, as well as urial lambs, differed from the others in being almost passive.
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