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Dall sheep

noun

large white wild sheep of northwestern Canada and Alaska

• Hypernyms: ↑wild sheep

• Member Holonyms: ↑Ovis, ↑genus Ovis

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noun or dall's sheep

Usage: usually capitalized D

Etymology: after W.H.Dall

: a large white wild sheep (Ovis montana dalli or O. dalli) of northwestern No. America

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Dall sheep «dl»,

a wild sheep of Alaska and northwestern Canada, pure white or with brownish upper parts; white sheep; bighorn.

╂[< William Healey Dall, 1845-1927, an American naturalist]

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[dôl]

(also Dall's sheep) n. a wild North American sheep found in mountainous country from Alaska to British Columbia. ● Ovis dalli, family Bovidae

Origin:

early 20th cent.: named after William H. Dall (1845 - 1927), U.S. naturalist

Useful english dictionary. 2012.