stone sheep

stone sheep
noun or stone's sheep
Usage: usually capitalized 1st S
: a dark brown northern mountain sheep (Ovis canadensis stonei) that is widely but sparsely distributed in the southern Yukon and northern British Columbia and Alberta

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stone sheep,
a wild sheep of British Columbia, a brownish-black variety of the Dall sheep; bighorn.

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