NOUN | animal | Ovis aries, domestic sheep | 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 | domestic sheep | |
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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