maned sheep

1. 1.

   wild sheep of northern Africa

   SynonymsaoudadaruiaudadBarbary sheepAmmotragus lervia

   Broaderwild sheep

   Part ofAmmotragus

Questions about maned sheep

What does maned sheep mean?

maned sheep means "wild sheep of northern Africa".

What is another word for maned sheep?

Close synonyms include aoudad, arui, audad, Barbary sheep, Ammotragus lervia. 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 maned sheep a common word?

maned 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.