Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun See
musimon .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Zoöl.) See
mouflon .
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Examples
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They were not ordinary sheep, but a species usually found in the mountainous regions of the temperate zone, to which Herbert gave the name of the musmon.
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They were not ordinary sheep, but a species usually found in the mountainous regions of the temperate zone, to which Herbert gave the name of the musmon.
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Cuvier, that all the breeds of tamed sheep are descended either from the argali of Siberia, or from the moufloun or musmon of
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 347, September, 1844 Various
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Thus in many breeds the horns are deficient in the ewe, though this likewise occurs occasionally with the female of the wild musmon.
The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication, Vol. I. Charles Darwin 1845
chained_bear commented on the word musmon
A kind of goat; see also mouflon.
August 26, 2008