wild sheep

/waɪld ʃip/

Other forms: wild sheeps

Definitions of wild sheep

1. noun

   undomesticated sheep
   types:

   Ovis ammon, argal, argali

   wild sheep of semidesert regions in central Asia

   Marco Polo sheep, Marco Polo's sheep, Ovis poli

   Asiatic wild sheep with exceptionally large horns; sometimes considered a variety of the argali (or Ovis ammon)

   Ovis vignei, urial

   bearded reddish sheep of southern Asia

   Dall sheep, Dall's sheep, Ovis montana dalli, white sheep

   large white wild sheep of northwestern Canada and Alaska

   mountain sheep

   any wild sheep inhabiting mountainous regions

   Ammotragus lervia, Barbary sheep, aoudad, arui, audad, maned sheep

   wild sheep of northern Africa

   Ovis canadensis, Rocky Mountain bighorn, Rocky Mountain sheep, bighorn, bighorn sheep, cimarron

   wild sheep of mountainous regions of western North America having massive curled horns

   Ovis musimon, moufflon, mouflon

   wild mountain sheep of Corsica and Sardinia

   type of:

   bovid

   hollow-horned ruminants