Zool. [Mongol and Tungusian.] The wild or rock sheep of Asia.

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a. 1779.  Cook, Voy. (1790), VI. 2185. The wild mountain sheep, or argali.

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1847.  Carpenter, Zool., § 274. The Argali, or wild Sheep of Siberia … supposed to be the original stock of the domestic Sheep.

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