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DOMESTIC SHEEP

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Any of various breeds raised for wool or edible meat or skin

Synonyms:

domestic sheep; Ovis aries

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("domestic sheep" is a kind of...):

sheep (woolly usually horned ruminant mammal related to the goat)

Meronyms (parts of "domestic sheep"):

mouton; mutton (meat from a mature domestic sheep)

lamb (the flesh of a young domestic sheep eaten as food)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "domestic sheep"):

Cotswold (sheep with long wool originating in the Cotswold Hills)

Hampshire; Hampshire down (British breed of hornless dark-faced domestic sheep)

Lincoln (long-wooled mutton sheep originally from Lincolnshire)

Exmoor (horned sheep of Devon; valued for mutton)

Cheviot (hardy hornless sheep of the Cheviot Hills noted for its short thick wool)

broadtail; caracul; karakul (hardy coarse-haired sheep of central Asia; lambs are valued for their soft curly black fur)

longwool (a domestic long-wool sheep)

merino; merino sheep (white sheep originating in Spain and producing a heavy fleece of exceptional quality)

Rambouillet (hardy sheep developed from the merino producing both good mutton and fine wool)

Holonyms ("domestic sheep" is a member of...):

genus Ovis; Ovis (sheep)

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