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Webster 1913 Edition

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Noun.

[Mongolian.]

(Zool.)

A species of wild sheep (

Ovis ammon

, or

Ovis argali

), remarkable for its large horns. It inhabits the mountains of

Siberia

and

central Asia

☞ The bearded argali is the aoudad. See

. The name is also applied to the bighorn sheep of the Rocky Mountains. See