mouflon
English
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Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Unadapted borrowing from French mouflon, from Italian muflone. From 1765–1775.
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈmuːf.lɒn/
Audio (Southern England): (file) - (US) IPA(key): /ˈmuːf.lɑːn/
- Rhymes: -uːflɒn, -uːflɑːn
Noun
[edit]mouflon (plural mouflons)
- A species of wild sheep, Ovis orientalis musimon, syn. Ovis aries musimon, endemic to Sardinia and Corsica. [from c. 1770]
- 2018, Tim Flannery, Europe: A Natural History, page 237:
- One of the most modified domesticates is the sheep, the various breeds of which bear little resemblance to its wild ancestor, the mouflon.
Translations
[edit]sheep
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Anagrams
[edit]French
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Italian muflone.
Pronunciation
[edit]Audio: (file)
Noun
[edit]mouflon m (plural mouflons)
Descendants
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “mouflon”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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- fr:Sheep