Noun: bighorn sheep 'big,horn sheep
- Wild sheep of mountainous regions of western North America having massive curled horns
"Tourists hoped to spot bighorn sheep scaling the rocky cliffs"; "Tourists hoped to spot Rocky Mountain bighorn sheep scaling the rocky cliffs";
- bighorn, cimarron, Rocky Mountain bighorn, Rocky Mountain sheep, Ovis canadensis
Derived forms: bighorn sheep
Type of: mountain sheep
Part of: genus Ovis, Ovis
Encyclopedia: Bighorn sheep