rocky mountain bighorn

Questions about rocky mountain bighorn

What does rocky mountain bighorn mean?

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

What is another word for rocky mountain bighorn?

Close synonyms include bighorn, bighorn sheep, cimarron, 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 rocky mountain bighorn a common word?

rocky mountain bighorn 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.