| 单词 | rocky mountain sheep |
| 释义 | > as lemmasRocky Mountain sheep Rocky Mountain sheep n. the American bighorn sheep, Ovis canadensis; cf. Rocky Mountain bighorn n.The animal discovered (but not named) by Lewis and Clark was a subspecies that became extinct in about 1925. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > group Ruminantia (sheep, goats, cows, etc.) > genus Ovus > [noun] > ovis canadensis (bighorn) mountain rama1625 mountain sheep1802 bighorn1805 Rocky Mountain sheep1812 cimarron1850 Rocky Mountain bighorn1860 mountain buffalo1868 1804 W. Clark Jrnl. 22 Dec. in Jrnls. Lewis & Clark Exped. (1987) III. 260 Two horns of the animal the French Call the Rock mountain Sheep.] 1812 C. Le Raye Jrnl. in J. Cutler Topogr. Descr. Ohio 187 Here we killed several rocky mountain sheep. The male, or mountain ram, is considerably larger than the female. 1881 Scribner's Monthly May 1/1 The American big horn, or Rocky Mountain sheep (Ovis montana Cuv.). 1936 D. McCowan Animals Canad. Rockies v. 45 Rocky Mountain sheep..are almost entirely guided by what we call instinct. 1999 W. L. Heat Moon River Horse viii. 361 He talked about..the extermination by the 1930s of those Audubon bighorn—a species now replaced by the smaller and less distinctive Rocky Mountain sheep. < as lemmas |
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