mountain sheep

English

Noun

mountain sheep (plural mountain sheep)

1. The argali.
2. The bighorn (Ovis canadensis) of the Rocky Mountains.
   • 1861, E. J. Guerin, Mountain Charley, page 36:

     On the 29th we passed into the territory of the Panock Indians—a tribe of hunters, who find an abundant subsistence in the myriads of mountain sheep, antelopes, prairie dogs, and other animals, with which the country abounds.

   • 1915 April, Enos A. Mills, “Wild Mountain Sheep”, in The Rocky Mountain Wonderland, Houghton Mifflin, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 24:

     Wild mountain sheep are perhaps the most accomplished and dare-devil acrobats in the animal world.