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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: wild mountain sheep of Corsica and Sardinia [syn: mouflon, moufflon, Ovis musimon]

Merriam Webster's

also moufflon noun Etymology: French mouflon, from Italian dialect muvrone, from Late Latin mufron-, mufro Date: 1774 either of two wild sheep (Ovis orientalis and O. musimon) of the mountains of Sardinia, Corsica and western Asia that have large curling horns in the males and are sometimes included in a single species

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Mouflon Mouf"lon, n. [F. mouflon.] (Zo["o]l.) A wild sheep (Ovis musimon), inhabiting the mountains of Sardinia, Corsica, etc. Its horns are very large, with a triangular base and rounded angles. It is supposed by some to be the original of the domestic sheep. Called also musimon or musmon. [Written also moufflon.]