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单词 goat-horned sheep
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goat-horned sheep
goat-horned sheep n. any of several primitive varieties of sheep with small straight or slightly curved horns, typical of prehistoric domesticated flocks in Europe; also called turbary sheep (turbary n. Compounds 2).
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1757 J. Dyer Fleece i. 14 Goat-horn'd sheep, of fleece Hairy and coarse.
1863 C. Lyell Geol. Evid. Antiq. Man 26 The small race of goat-horned sheep still lingers in some Alpine valleys of the Upper Rhine.
1882 R. Munro Anc. Sc. Lake-dwellings iv. 238 This is probably the so-called goat-horned sheep, scarcely now to be got in Shetland.
1996 K. A. Seaver Frozen Echo ii. 54 The cattle at Ø17a [sc. a site in Greenland] were of the small medieval type, while the goats and ‘goat-horned’ sheep were more like the modern Icelandic breeds.
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