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Bighorn
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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n.
a sheep, Ovis canadensis, found in the western mountains.
Quotations
1784-1812
Four sheep, an animal peculiar to these mountains, and by the Americans named Big Horn.
1962
Geist's lonely vigil was devoted to studying stone sheep, a nearly black race of bighorns living in the Stikine mountains [of northern B.C.].