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Bighorn

noun

A river that flows from central Wyoming to the Yellowstone River in southern Montana. Synonym: Bighorn River.

Wild sheep of mountainous regions of western North America having massive curled horns. Synonyms: bighorn sheep, cimarron, Ovis canadensis, Rocky Mountain bighorn, Rocky Mountain sheep.

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"Bighorn" Quotes from Famous Books

... more furnished than the rest of the room. To the right and left of the fireplace hung twin bighorn heads, and elk and stag antlers on the other walls supplied racks for an ample variety of rifles, polished by familiar use and kept, through love of trusty friends, in good order. Trophies of the hunt, disposed sometimes in effective and sometimes in mere man fashion, flanked ...

— Laramie Holds the Range • Frank H. Spearman

Words linked to "Bighorn" : Equality State, Treasure State, mountain sheep, Ovis, mt, Little Bighorn, Wyoming, Ovis canadensis, bighorn sheep, WY, river, genus Ovis, Montana