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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: wild sheep of northern Africa [syn: aoudad, arui, audad, Barbary sheep, maned sheep, Ammotragus lervia]

Merriam Webster's

noun Etymology: French, from Berber audad Date: 1861 a wild bovine (Ammotragus lervia) of North Africa that is closely related to goats and sheep and has been introduced into the southwestern U.S. — called also aoudad sheep, Barbary sheep

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Aoudad A"ou*dad, n. [The Moorish name.] (Zo["o]l.) An African sheeplike quadruped (the Ammotragus tragelaphus) having a long mane on the breast and fore legs. It is, perhaps, the chamois of the Old Testament.