Bighorn Synonyms

bighôrn
Wild sheep of mountainous regions of western North America having massive curled horns
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. bighorn-sheep
  2. cimarron
  3. Rocky Mountain bighorn
  4. rocky mountain sheep
  5. ovis-canadensis
A river that flows from central Wyoming to the Yellowstone River in southern Montana
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. bighorn river

Bighorn Sentence Examples

  • The peccary (Tayassu angulatum), the armadillo (Tatu novemcinctum), the civet-cat (Bassariscus astutus flavus), the Mexican bighorn (Ovis mexicanus) and the jaguar are Mexican species found in southern or south-western Texas.

  • Flanking strata are even better exhibited in the Bighorn Mountains, the front range of northern Wyoming, crescentic in outline and convex to the northeast, like the Laramie Range, but much higher; here heavy sheets of limestone arch far up towards the range crest, and are deeply notched where consequent streams have cut down their gorges.

  • In the mountains of British Columbia are the bighorn or Rocky Mountain sheep and the Rocky Mountain goat, while the saddleback and white mountain sheep have recently been discovered in the northern Cordillera.

  • These features are well developed about the Bighorn Mountains,.

  • Local glaciation has modified the higher levels of the Bighorn Mountains, giving glacial cirques, alpine peaks and many mountain lakes and waterfalls.

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