Bighorn

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. A wild sheep (Ovis canadensis) of the mountains of western North America, the male of which has massive curved horns. Also called mountain sheep, Rocky Mountain sheep.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. Either of two North American species of sheep, Ovis canadensis and Ovis dalli, having large, curving horns
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. The Rocky Mountain sheep (Ovis montana or Caprovis montana); called also bighorn sheep.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. The Rocky Mountain sheep, Ovis montana: so called from the immense size of the horns, which resemble those of the argali, but are shorter and comparatively stouter and not so spiral.
  • n. . The great fossil Irish elk of the peat-bogs, Cervus megaceros.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. wild sheep of mountainous regions of western North America having massive curled horns
  • n. a river that flows from central Wyoming to the Yellowstone River in southern Montana
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