Definition of bighorn sheep
: a usually grayish-brown wild sheep (Ovis canadensis) of mountainous and desert regions of western North America ◆The bighorn sheep has a white patch on the rump and, in the males, massive horns that curve up and back over the ears and then up and forward toward the cheeks. —called also bighorn
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: a kind of wild sheep with long curved horns that lives in the mountains of western North America
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