mouflon

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UK/ˈmuːflɒn/US/ˈmuːflɑn/

noun

A species of wild sheep, Ovis orientalis musimon, syn. Ovis aries musimon, endemic to Sardinia and Corsica.

Similar
moufflonOvis musimon
OriginFrench mouflon →
RareFirst used c. 1770Scrabble 12
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Meanings

nounmouflon (plural mouflons)

plural mouflons · alternative moufflon · alternative obsolete mufflon · alternative obsolete muflon

  1. A species of wild sheep, Ovis orientalis musimon, syn. Ovis aries musimon, endemic to Sardinia and Corsica.First known use c. 1770

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

    2018, Tim Flannery, Europe: A Natural History, page 237

Synonyms & antonyms

nounwild mountain sheep of Corsica and Sardinia

Similar
moufflonOvis musimon
Broader
mountain sheep
Also see
musimon

Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

Origin

  1. Frenchmouflon
  2. Englishmouflon

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

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Translations

Arabic أُرْوِيَّة
  • أُرْوِيَّة (ʔurwiyya)sheep
Basque mufloi
  • mufloisheep
Bulgarian муфло́н
  • муфло́н (muflón)sheep
Catalan mufló
  • muflósheep
Czech muflon
  • muflonsheep
Danish muflon
  • muflonsheep
Dutch moeflon
  • moeflonsheep
Esperanto muflono
  • muflonosheep
Estonian muflon
  • muflonsheep
Finnish mufloni
  • muflonisheep
French mouflon
  • mouflonsheep
German Mufflon
  • Mufflonsheep
Greek μουφλόν
  • μουφλόν (mouflón)sheep
Hungarian muflon
  • muflonsheep
Irish caora mouflon
  • caora mouflonsheep
Italian muflone
  • muflonesheep
Japanese ムフロン
  • ムフロン (mufuron)sheep
Latin mūsimō
  • mūsimōsheep
Latvian muflons
  • muflonssheep
Lithuanian muflonas
  • muflonassheep
Norwegian mufflon
  • mufflonsheep
Persian موک
  • موک (muk)sheep
Polish muflon
  • muflonsheep
Portuguese muflão
  • muflãosheep
Romanian muflon
  • muflonsheep
Russian муфло́н
  • муфло́н (muflón)sheep
Slovak muflón
  • muflónsheep
Spanish muflón
  • muflónsheep
Swedish mufflon
  • mufflonsheep
Turkish yaban koyunu, muflon
  • yaban koyunusheep
  • muflonsheep
Ukrainian муфлон
  • муфлон (muflon)sheep
Welsh mwfflon
  • mwfflonsheep

Rhymes & wordplay

Anagrams

moonful
Cite this entry
APA

mouflon. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/mouflon

MLA

“mouflon.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/mouflon. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “mouflon,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/mouflon.

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