Crossword-Solution: MOUFLON
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Mouflon | n. | A wild sheep (Ovis musimon), inhabiting the mountains of Sardinia, Corsica, etc. Its horns are very large, with a triangular base and rounded angles. It is supposed by some to be the original of the domestic sheep. Called also musimon or musmon. |
We have 5 clues for the answer “MOUFLON”
| Clue | Answers |
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| wild mountain sheep of Corsica and Sardinia | 1 answer |
| argal relative | 11 answers |
| argali relative | 11 answers |
| AOUDAD relative | 14 answers |
| SHEEP breed | 41 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
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greedy person
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Sentences with MOUFLON (5)
Then there is the mouflon, a strange animal, which you will not find anywhere else--splendid game, but hard to get--and stags, deer, pheasants, and partridges--it would be impossible to enumerate all the kinds with which Corsica swarms.
Her father meanwhile was dreaming he had slain a mouflon, and that its owner insisted on his paying for it, a demand to which he gladly acceded, seeing it was a most curious creature, like a boar, with stag’s horns and a pheasant’s tail.
The wild hog, the mouflon, the bison, and the wolf; are perfectly exempt from malady, and invariably die either from external violence or natural old age.
Later on the design was simplified, and contained only one, or at most two figures--a hare squatting under a tortuous climbing plant, a roaring lion crouching with its head turned to the left, the grinning muzzle of a lion, the horned profile of an antelope or mouflon sheep: rosettes and flowers, included within a square depression, were then used to replace the stria and irregular lines of the reverse.
Recently, however, men have thought more deeply and freely on such subjects, and Nehring and others have traced the modern tame sheep back to the mouflon, but not to him alone.