Thesaurus
:
sheep
T
hesaurus
sheep
English
Noun
Sense: a woolly ruminant of the genus Ovis
Synonyms
Ovis
sheep
Hyponyms
bellwether
chilver
ewe
hoggerel
hogget
lamb
ram
teg
wether
yeanling
Hypernyms
bovid
[
⇒ thesaurus
]
ruminant
[
⇒ thesaurus
]
mammal
[
⇒ thesaurus
]
vertebrate
[
⇒ thesaurus
]
animal
[
⇒ thesaurus
]
Meronyms
mutton
See also
Thesaurus:coward
Thesaurus:shy person
Further reading
“
366. animal
” in
Roget's Thesaurus
, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
“
sheep
” in
Moby Thesaurus II
, Grady Ward, 1996.