wool-bearern.
/ˈwʊlˌbɛːrə/, U.S. /ˈwʊlˌbɛrər/ An animal that bears wool, esp. a sheep.
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the world > animals > mammals > [noun] > parts of > coat > mammal bearing wool
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the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > group Ruminantia (sheep, goats, cows, etc.) > genus Ovus > [noun] > Ovus Aries (domestic sheep)
sheepc825
sowthc1175
balle1440
wool-bearer1483
flocklinga1652
ram-sheep1672
fleece1783
jumbuck1824
ovine1890
mae1899
woolly1910
1483 Cath. Angl. 423/1 A Wolle berere, laniger.
1607 E. Topsell Hist. Foure-footed Beastes 631 The Epithets of this beast are, horne-bearer,..wool-bearer [etc.].
?1611 G. Chapman tr. Homer Iliads xxiv. 134 A huge wooll-bearer, slaughtered there.
1651 C. Barksdale Nympha Libethris ii. xlv. 45 The trembling Wool-bearer.
1837 W. Youatt Sheep iii. 95 Many an animal that had not been dreamed of as a wool-bearer.
1891 C. Roberts Adrift in Amer. 245 To maunder on behind the slow and harmless wool-bearers.
Derivatives
ˈwool-ˌbearing adj.
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the world > animals > mammals > [adjective] > of parts of > having coat of specific kind > bearing wool
laniferous1656
wool-bearing1830
lanigerous1839
1830 D. Booth Analyt. Dict. Eng. Lang. 186 The Sheep, or Woolbearing animal (Ovis aries).
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