Definition of "mouflon" []

• A small, wild European sheep (Ovis musimon), native to Sardinia and Corsica and having large curving horns in the male. (noun)

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• "Descended from a wild sheep called the mouflon, it quickly spread westward to Cyprus, Rhodes and Western Europe."
• "The mouflon is a large animal; he is fleet as a stag, armed with horns and thick hoofs, covered with coarse hair, and dreads neither the inclemency of the sky nor the voracity of the wolf."
• "This was once the hunting grounds for Tito and his Communist elites -- packed with European mouflon, chamois, boar, and bear."