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TUP

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

Irregular inflected forms: tupped    , tupping   

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Uncastrated adult male sheep

Example:

a British term is 'tup'

Synonyms:

ram; tup

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

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

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

Meronyms (parts of "tup"):

horn (one of the bony outgrowths on the heads of certain ungulates)

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