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Definition: Bighorn Sheep |
Bighorn SheepNoun1. Wild sheep of mountainous regions of western North America having massive curled horns. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonym: Bighorn SheepSynonym: bighorn (n). (additional references) |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Desert Bighorn Sheep posing for the camera.Credit: Unknown. |  | Bighorn Sheep releaseWildlifeLSRDLower Snake River District.Credit: Unknown. |
 | Wildlife biologists construct water catchment for bighorn sheep on Vulcan Mountain in Ferry County, Washington.Credit: Todd Thompson. |  | Viewing Bighorn Sheep in Home Creek Canyon at Steens Mountain in Southeastern Oregon.Credit: Mark Armstrong. |
 | Building a catchment to provide water for bighorn sheep near Yakima River Canyon, Washington.Credit: Neal Hedges. |  | Bighorn Sheep.Credit: Chuck Telford. |
 | A Bighorn Sheep with grass in its mouth.Credit: Unknown. |  | Two Bighorn Sheep standing in a field.Credit: Unknown. |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
bighorn sheep | 98 |
picture bighorn sheep | 9 |
rocky mountain bighorn sheep | 6 |
bighorn sheep hunting | 5 |
bighorn sheep hunt | 3 |
bighorn sheep.com | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "bighorn sheep"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||
Danish | tykhornsfaar (bighorn, mountain sheep). (various references) | ||||||||||
Dutch | dikhoornschaap (mountain sheep). (various references) | ||||||||||
French | mouton des montagnes Rocheuses, mouflon grosses cornes (Rocky Mountain bighorn), mouflon du Canada (bighorn), mouflon d'Amérique, mouflon canadien (Rocky Mountain bighorn). (various references) | ||||||||||
German | Dickhornschaf (bighorn, mountain sheep). (various references) | ||||||||||
Greek | μεγάκερως του Kαναδά (mountain sheep), χονδρόκερως του Kαναδά (mountain sheep). (various references) | ||||||||||
Pig Latin | ighornbay eepshay muflão das montanhas rochosas (mountain sheep). (various references) | ||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | Ovis canadensis. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "b-e-e-g-h-h-i-n-o-p-r-s" | |
-3 letters: biosphere, neighbors, progenies, reshoeing, shipborne. | |
-4 letters: bighorns, epigones, eringoes, greenish, heroines, highborn, hipbones, insphere, isoprene, neighbor, perigons, phosgene, pioneers, rebegins, rehinges, reposing, sheering, sobering, speering, sphering, spongier. | |
-5 letters: beeping, bighorn, bingers, biogens, boreens, borings, ebonies, ebonise, enrobes, epheboi, ephebos, epigone, epigons, erepsin, eringos, genoise, gophers, gorhens, greisen, henries, heroine, heroins, hingers, hipbone, horsing. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)42 69 67 68 6F 72 6E 53 68 65 65 70 |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000010 01101001 01100111 01101000 01101111 01110010 01101110 00100000 01010011 01101000 01100101 01100101 01110000 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)B i g h o r n   S h e e p |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0042 0069 0067 0068 006F 0072 006E 0053 0068 0065 0065 0070 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)3675737481848025374717182 |
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