cimarronn.
/ˈsɪmərən//sɪməˈrəʊn/ A Spanish-American name of the Rocky Mountain sheep or bighorn.
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mountain rama1625
mountain sheep1802
bighorn1805
Rocky Mountain sheep1812
cimarron1850
Rocky Mountain bighorn1860
mountain buffalo1868
1844 J. Gregg Commerce of Prairies I. 194 The carnero cimarron or bighorn of the Rocky Mountains.]
1850 R. B. Marcy in Executive Documents U.S. Senate (31st Congress, 1st Sess.) No. 64. 201 The big-horn, or cimarron.
?1855 M. Reid Hunters' Feast xxvi. 226 The grizzly bears..had reached the cliff in chase of the cimmaron.
1897 A. H. Lewis Wolfville 81 First we-alls knows, these yere Britons would be runnin' cimmaron in the hills.
1930 E. Ferber (title) Cimarron.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1933; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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