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Mountain Sheep

Definition: Mountain Sheep

Mountain Sheep

Noun

1. Any wild sheep inhabiting mountainous regions.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 


Synonyms: Mountain Sheep

Synonyms: Barbary sheep, Bighorn sheep, Dall sheep. (additional references)

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Crosswords: Mountain Sheep

English words defined with "mountain sheep": moufflon, mouflonOvis musimon. (references)
Specialty definitions using "mountain sheep": Sheep Diseases. (references)

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Commercial Usage: Mountain Sheep

DomainTitle

Books

  • Evaluation of health status of Rocky Mountain sheep in southeastern British Columbia (Ovis canadensis canadensis) : project report (reference)

    (more book examples)

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Image Slideshow: Mountain Sheep

Illustrations:
Mountain Sheep

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Photo Album: Mountain Sheep

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Two Mountain Sheep climbing up rocky hillside. Credit: Unknown.

Mountain sheep. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

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Expression: Mountain Sheep

Expression using "mountain sheep": Rocky Mountain sheep. Additional references.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Mountain Sheep

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

mountain sheep

17

black mountain sheep welsh

5

rocky mountain sheep skin

3
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Modern Translation: Mountain Sheep

Language Translations for "mountain sheep"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Danish

  

tykhornsfaar (bighorn, bighorn sheep), bjergfår (hill sheep). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

dikhoornschaap (bighorn sheep), bergschaap (hill sheep). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

vuoristolammas (hill sheep). (various references)

   

French

  

mouton de montagne, mouflon du Canada, mouflon d'Amérique. (various references)

   

German

  

dickhornschaf (bighorn, bighorn sheep). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

μεγάκερως του Kαναδά (bighorn sheep), χονδρόκερως του Kαναδά (bighorn sheep), ορεινό πρόβατο (hill sheep). (various references)

   

Italian

  

pecora montana (hill sheep), pecora di razza montana (hill sheep). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ountainmay eepshay

   

Portuguese

  

muflão das montanhas rochosas (bighorn sheep), ovelha de montanha (hill sheep). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

ovino de montana (hill sheep). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

bergsfår (hill sheep). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

kanada koyunu. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: Mountain Sheep

LanguagePeriodTranslations
Latin500 BCE-Modern

Ovis canadensis. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Anagrams: Mountain Sheep

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-e-e-h-i-m-n-n-o-p-s-t-u"

-3 letters: phenomenas, pneumonias, punishment.

-4 letters: anthemion, antiphons, atheneums, empathies, empathise, euphemist, euphonies, hemateins, hematines, housemate, mainsheet, menopause, mountains, nominates, pantheism, pantheons, penstemon, penthouse, phenomena, pneumonia, ptomaines.

-5 letters: amniotes, amputees, anemones, antiphon, apothems, atheneum, enamines, enations, epistome, epitomes, etamines, eupnoeas, haptenes, hematein, hematine, hematins, hempiest, heptanes, homesite, homespun, houseman, housemen, humanest, humanise, humanist, humpiest, huntsman.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Mountain Sheep


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

4D 6F 75 6E 74 61 69 6E      53 68 65 65 70

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

    

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01001101 01101111 01110101 01101110 01110100 01100001 01101001 01101110 00100000 01010011 01101000 01100101 01100101 01110000

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#77 &#111 &#117 &#110 &#116 &#97 &#105 &#110 &#32 &#83 &#104 &#101 &#101 &#112

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

004D 006F 0075 006E 0074 0061 0069 006E      0053 0068 0065 0065 0070

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

478187808667758025374717182

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Commercial
5. Images: Slideshow
6. Images: Photo Album
7. Expressions
8. Expressions: Internet
9. Translations: Modern
10. Translations: Ancient
11. Anagrams
12. Orthography
13. Bibliography


  

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