noun
sheep
• Syn: ↑genus Ovis
• Hypernyms: ↑mammal genus
• Member Holonyms: ↑Bovidae, ↑family Bovidae
• Member Meronyms:
↑sheep, ↑wether, ↑lamb, ↑domestic sheep, ↑Ovis aries, ↑argali, ↑argal, ↑Ovis ammon, ↑Marco Polo sheep, ↑Marco Polo's sheep, ↑Ovis poli, ↑urial, ↑Ovis vignei, ↑Dall sheep, ↑Dall's sheep, ↑white sheep, ↑Ovis montana dalli, ↑bighorn, ↑bighorn sheep, ↑cimarron, ↑Rocky Mountain bighorn, ↑Rocky Mountain sheep, ↑Ovis canadensis, ↑mouflon, ↑moufflon, ↑Ovis musimon
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\\ˈōvə̇s\ nounUsage: capitalized
: a genus of Bovidae consisting of the domestic sheep and the majority of the wild sheep most of which inhabit the moutainous regions from western No. America to western Asia and have horns that form a lateral spiral — see argali
Useful english dictionary. 2012.