| NOUN | animal | domestic sheep, Ovis aries | any of various breeds raised for wool / wool or edible meat or skin |
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| Meaning | Any of various breeds raised for wool / wool or edible meat or skin. | |
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| Synonym | Ovis aries | |
| Member of | Ovis, genus Ovis | Sheep |
| Parts | lamb | The flesh of a young domestic sheep eaten as food |
| mouton, mutton | meat from a mature domestic sheep | |
| Narrower | Cheviot | hardy hornless sheep of the Cheviot Hills noted for its short thick wool |
| 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 |
| Spanish | oveja | |
| Catalan | ovella, Ovis aries | |
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