Burrhel
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a wild sheep, Pseudois nahoor, of Tibet and adjacent mountainous regions, having goatlike horns that curve backward.
Historical Examples
Our Vanishing Wild Life William T. Hornaday
The Unveiling of Lhasa Edmund Candler
noun
a wild Himalayan sheep, Pseudois nayaur, with a bluish-grey coat and round backward-curving horns
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