: any of various wild sheep (such as bighorn, argali, or Dall sheep) inhabiting high mountains
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Recent Examples on the WebThe mountain sheep meat is their choice meat, but they are not allowed to serve it to tourists. Mary Ann Ashcraft, baltimoresun.com/maryland/carroll, 12 Mar. 2021 These included elk and caribou antlers, bison ribs and horns, and mountain sheep horns. Andrew Del-colle, Popular Mechanics, 16 Aug. 2020 In the nursery field, the brown-and-white Jacob’s sheep already have triplets: the Swaledales are due in early April, and the black Herdwick lambs, the hardy mountain sheep, a couple of weeks later. Sylvia Poggioli, The New York Review of Books, 29 Mar. 2020