bighorn sheep

English

A bighorn sheep

A juvenile bighorn sheep

Wikispecies

Noun

bighorn sheep (plural bighorn sheep)

1. Certain North American species of sheep

   Synonym: bighorn

   1. especially, Ovis canadensis, having large, curving horns.
   2. (Can we verify⁽⁺⁾ this sense?) Ovis dalli, having thinner horns than O. canadensis.

      Synonyms: thinhorn sheep, thinhorn, Dall sheep

Translations

a North American wild sheep

• Catalan: mufló de les Muntanyes Rocalloses m
• Cherokee: ᎡᏆᏧᎵᎩ ᎤᏃᏕᎾ (equatsuligi unodena)
• Danish: bighornfår n, tykhornsfår n
• Dutch: dikhoornschaap (nl) n
• French: mouflon du Canada (fr) m
• German: Dickhornschaf
• Hungarian: kanadai vadjuh
• Irish: caora mhóradharcach f
• Navajo: tsétah dibé
• Russian: толсторо́г m (tolstoróg), толсторо́гий бара́н m (tolstorógij barán)

References

• Bighorn sheep on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Ovis canadensis on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Ovis dalli on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Ovis canadensis on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
• Ovis dalli on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons