Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

soay

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.26 in modern English

Syllables: soay
IPA

7

Scrabble Score

4

Letters

1

Syllables

4

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A primitive breed of domestic sheep descended from feral sheep on the island of Soay, Scotland.

Example Sentences

"1961 August 3, Peter Jewell, The wild sheep of St Kilda, New Scientist, No. 246, page 268, These apparently wild Soay sheep have bred on the island for centuries, virtually untended by Man. They are a relic of primitive domestic sheep, little improved from their wild progenitors."
"We first discuss a multiyear study on Soay sheep (Ovis aries) and red deer (Cervus elaphus) that has successfully yielded a sophisticated understanding of population regulation (Clutton-Brock et al., 1997)."
"Such selective antagonism can be seen as a form of parent-offspring conflict and has been demonstrated in Soay sheep (Wilson et al. 2005c)."

Inflected Forms

Soays (plural)

Synonyms

Soay sheep

Questions

What does soay mean?: A primitive breed of domestic sheep descended from feral sheep on the island of Soay, Scotland.

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