Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
bharal .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Zoöl.) The wild Himalayan, or blue, sheep (
Ovis burrhel ).
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The wild
Himalayan , or blue,sheep (Ovis burrhel).
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Examples
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The fugitives often saw flocks of burhel -- called _nao_ in Bhutan -- feeding on the precipitous slopes of the higher hills.
The Jungle Girl Gordon Casserly
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Blyth's name of _Ovis burhel_ should be adopted to the exclusion of the other, which, however, is in general use.
Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon Robert Armitage Sterndale 1870
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