rocky mountain sheep

Questions about rocky mountain sheep

What does rocky mountain sheep mean?

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

What is another word for rocky mountain sheep?

Close synonyms include bighorn, bighorn sheep, cimarron, Rocky Mountain bighorn, 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 sheep a common word?

rocky mountain 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.