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mouflon /ˈmuːflɒn /(also moufflon) nounA small wild sheep with chestnut-brown wool, found in mountainous country from Iran to Asia Minor. It is the ancestor of the domestic sheep.- Ovis orientalis, family Bovidae.
Hunters, in organised groups of three to four people, will be allowed to shoot mouflons, wild boars, roes, red deer and fallow deer at Christmas....- They include several mouflons as well as the American bighorn or mountain sheep, O. canadensis.
- Following the introduction and spread of pigs, mouflon sheep, and other alien ungulates, however, it suffered a severe decline.
Origin Late 18th century: from French, from Italian muflone. |