Meaning | Any of various breeds raised for wool / wool or edible meat or skin. |
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Synonym | Ovis aries |
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Member of | Ovis, genus Ovis | Sheep |
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Parts | lamb | The flesh of a young domestic sheep eaten as food |
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mouton, mutton | meat from a mature domestic sheep |
Narrower | Cheviot | hardy hornless sheep of the Cheviot Hills noted for its short thick wool |
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Cotswold | Sheep with long wool originating in the Cotswold Hills |
Exmoor | horned sheep of Devon |
Hampshire, Hampshire down | British breed of hornless dark-faced domestic sheep |
Lincoln | long-wooled mutton sheep originally from Lincolnshire |
Rambouillet | hardy sheep developed from the merino producing both good mutton and fine wool |
broadtail, caracul, karakul | hardy coarse-haired sheep of central Asia |
longwool | A domestic long-wool sheep |
merino, merino sheep | white sheep originating in Spain and producing a heavy fleece of exceptional quality |
Broader | sheep | woolly usually horned ruminant mammal related to the goat |
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Spanish | oveja |
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Catalan | ovella, Ovis aries |
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