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    OVIS

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     I. (noun) 

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    Meaning:

    Sheepplay

    Synonyms:

    genus Ovis; Ovis

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting animals

    Hypernyms ("Ovis" is a kind of...):

    mammal genus (a genus of mammals)

    Meronyms (members of "Ovis"):

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

    wether (male sheep especially a castrated one)

    lamb (young sheep)

    domestic sheep; Ovis aries (any of various breeds raised for wool or edible meat or skin)

    argal; argali; Ovis ammon (wild sheep of semidesert regions in central Asia)

    Marco Polo's sheep; Marco Polo sheep; Ovis poli (Asiatic wild sheep with exceptionally large horns; sometimes considered a variety of the argali (or Ovis ammon))

    Ovis vignei; urial (bearded reddish sheep of southern Asia)

    Dall's sheep; Dall sheep; Ovis montana dalli; white sheep (large white wild sheep of northwestern Canada and Alaska)

    bighorn; bighorn sheep; cimarron; Ovis canadensis; Rocky Mountain bighorn; Rocky Mountain sheep (wild sheep of mountainous regions of western North America having massive curled horns)

    moufflon; mouflon; Ovis musimon (wild mountain sheep of Corsica and Sardinia)

    Holonyms ("Ovis" is a member of...):

    Bovidae; family Bovidae (true antelopes; cattle; oxen; sheep; goats)

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