mouflon

UK:**UK and possibly other pronunciationsUK and possibly other pronunciations/ˈmuːflɒn/US:USA pronunciation: respellingUSA pronunciation: respelling(mo̅o̅f′lon)


WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2026
mouf•lon  (mo̅o̅f′lon),USA pronunciation n. 
  1. Mammalsa wild sheep, Ovis musimon, inhabiting the mountainous regions of Sardinia and Corsica, the male of which has large curving horns.
Also, mouf′flon. 
  • a pre-Latin substratal language
  • Italian muflone, origin, originally dialect, dialectal; compare Corsican muffolo, Sardinian murone, Late Latin mufrō, stem mufrōn-, presumably
  • French
  • 1765–75

Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers::
mouflon, moufflon /ˈmuːflɒn/ n
  1. a wild short-fleeced mountain sheep, Ovis musimon, of Corsica and Sardinia
Etymology: 18th Century: via French from Corsican mufrone, from Late Latin mufrō

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