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Bighorn

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Noun

1. bighorn, bighorn river

a river that flows from central Wyoming to the Yellowstone River in southern Montana

2. bighorn, bighorn sheep, cimarron, ovis canadensis, rocky mountain bighorn, rocky mountain sheep

wild sheep of mountainous regions of western North America having massive curled horns

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Bighorn

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noun plural -horns or -horn
a large wild sheep, Ovis canadensis, inhabiting mountainous regions in North America and NE Asia: family Bovidae, order Artiodactyla. The male has massive curved horns, and the species is well adapted for climbing and leaping

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Bighorn

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river in WC Wyo. flowing northward into the Yellowstone River in S Mont.: c. 450 mi (724 km)
nounWord forms: plural ˈbigˌhorns or ˈbigˌhorn
any of a number of sheep with large horns, esp. a large, wild, hairy species (Ovis canadensis) of the Rocky Mountains

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