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Noun: bighorn sheep  'big,horn sheep
  1. 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