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mouflon
or 尘辞耻蹿路蹿濒辞苍
[ moof-lon ]
noun
- a wild sheep, Ovis musimon, inhabiting the mountainous regions of Sardinia and Corsica, the male of which has large curving horns.
mouflon
/ 藞尘耻藧蹿濒蓲苍 /
noun
- a wild short-fleeced mountain sheep, Ovis musimon, of Corsica and Sardinia
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亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins
Origin of mouflon1
First recorded in 1765鈥75; from French, from Italian muflone, originally dialectal; compare Corsican muffolo, Sardinian murone, Late Latin 尘耻蹿谤艒, stem 尘耻蹿谤艒苍-, presumably from a pre-Latin substratal language
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亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins
Origin of mouflon1
C18: via French from Corsican mufrone, from Late Latin 尘耻蹿谤艒
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It also is home to animals including deer, mouflon sheep and wild boars.
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Beneath soaring limestone walls, the boulder-strewn gorge is home to wildlife such as the mouflon and golden eagles.
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The Holly family brought zebras, impalas, ostriches, cranes, lemurs, giraffes, aoudads, mouflons and sable antelopes, according to the Gainesville Sun.
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"It has already been shown that wherever the wolf appears, the mouflon disappears," it warns.
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That problem also derailed domestication of North American bighorn sheep, which belong to the same genus as Asiatic mouflon sheep, ancestor of our domestic sheep.
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