mountain sheep
noun1
The argali.
2
The bighorn (Ovis canadensis) of the Rocky Mountains.
- 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.1861, E[lsa] J[ane] Guerin, chapter VII, in An Autobiography. Mountain Charley, […], Dubuque, Ia.: […] [F]or the author, →OCLC, page 36:
- Wild mountain sheep are perhaps the most accomplished and dare-devil acrobats in the animal world.1915 April 23, Enos A. Mills, “Wild Mountain Sheep”, in The Rocky Mountain Wonderland, Houghton Mifflin, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 24: