noun
wild sheep of mountainous regions of western North America having massive curled horns
• Syn: ↑bighorn, ↑bighorn sheep, ↑cimarron, ↑Rocky Mountain bighorn, ↑Ovis canadensis
• Hypernyms: ↑mountain sheep
• Member Holonyms: ↑Ovis, ↑genus Ovis
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nounUsage: usually capitalized R&M
: bighorn
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bighorn.
[1785-95, Amer.]
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Rocky Mountain sheep,
= bighorn. (Cf. ↑bighorn)
Useful english dictionary. 2012.