mouflon

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• moufflon

Unadapted borrowing from French mouflon, from Italian muflone. From 1765–1775.

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈmuːf.lɒn/

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• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈmuːf.lɑːn/
• Rhymes: -uːflɒn, -uːflɑːn

mouflon (plural mouflons)

1. A species of wild sheep, Ovis orientalis musimon, syn. Ovis aries musimon, endemic to Sardinia and Corsica. [from c. 1770]
   • 2018, Tim Flannery, Europe: A Natural History, page 237:

     One of the most modified domesticates is the sheep, the various breeds of which bear little resemblance to its wild ancestor, the mouflon.

• moonful

Borrowed from Italian muflone.

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mouflon m (plural mouflons)

1. mouflon

• → English: mouflon
• → German: Mufflon

• “mouflon”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.