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sheep::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Type of | bovid |
| Has types | ewe, black sheep, ram, ovis aries, wether, tup, domestic sheep |
Examples of sheep
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A week later, the team reloaded the ballista and aimed its spears at sheep hide.
From the dispatch.com
For startup money, I sold my flock of sheep, getting about $1,200 for six sheep.
From the businessweek.com
Children just see a sheep in a field, whether it be black, grey, white or beige.
From the telegraph.co.uk
The pink ballerina and parrot waxcap are just two to spot in the sheep pastures.
From the telegraph.co.uk
Here on the civilised side of the ditch, expect perfectly hilarious sheep jokes.
From the bbc.co.uk
Sheep were probably the first animals to be farmed, followed by cattle and pigs.
From the newscientist.com
In many ways, if you have the space, cows are less demanding than pigs or sheep.
From the telegraph.co.uk
The institute closed in 2006 and I bumped up my flocks with its sheep and goats.
From the telegraph.co.uk
The bridge, more than 700 years old, was once used for herding cattle and sheep.
From the washingtonpost.com
- Woolly usually horned ruminant mammal related to the goat
- A timid defenseless simpleton who is readily preyed upon
- A docile and vulnerable person who would rather follow than make an independent decision; "his students followed him like sheep"
- Domestic sheep (Ovis aries) are quadrupedal, ruminant mammals typically kept as livestock. Like all ruminants, sheep are members of the order Artiodactyla, the even-toed ungulates. Although the name "sheep" applies to many species, in everyday usage it almost always refers to Ovis aries. ...
- Sheep is an album by Massachusetts folk musician Zou00EB Lewis, released in 1998.
- Opposite Christ Church, Oxford, England, is Alice's Shop on St Aldate's. It was formerly frequented in Victorian times by Alice Liddell, the inspiration for Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Saw There, who used to buy sweets there. ...
- Lamb, hogget, and mutton are the meat of domestic sheep. The meat of an animal in its first year is lamb; that of an older sheep is hogget and later mutton.
- Sheep is a horror novel by British author Simon Maginn, originally published in 1994 and reissued in 1997. It is now out-of-print. The book provided the basis for the 2005 film The Dark, although the plot changed drastically in the conversion from book to film.
- "Sheep" is a song by the English band Pink Floyd. It was released on the album Animals in 1977. It was originally titled "Raving and Drooling".
