mountain sheep
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.08 in modern English
20
Scrabble Score
13
Letters
2
Syllables
11
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
The argali.
noun
The bighorn (Ovis canadensis) of the Rocky Mountains.
Example Sentences
- "On the 29th we passed into the territory of the Panock Indians—a tribe of hunters, who find an abundant subsistence in the myriads of mountain sheep, antelopes, prairie dogs, and other animals, with which the country abounds."
- "Wild mountain sheep are perhaps the most accomplished and dare-devil acrobats in the animal world."