noun
wild sheep of mountainous regions of western North America having massive curled horns
• Syn: ↑bighorn, ↑bighorn sheep, ↑cimarron, ↑Rocky Mountain sheep, ↑Ovis canadensis
• Hypernyms: ↑mountain sheep
• Member Holonyms: ↑Ovis, ↑genus Ovis
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bighorn.
[1910-15, Amer.]
Useful english dictionary. 2012.