bighorn sheep

Questions about bighorn sheep

What does bighorn sheep mean?

bighorn sheep means "wild sheep of mountainous regions of western North America having massive curled horns".

What is another word for bighorn sheep?

Close synonyms include bighorn, cimarron, Rocky Mountain bighorn, Rocky Mountain sheep, Ovis canadensis. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is bighorn sheep a common word?

bighorn sheep is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.