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mufflon

mufflon is the obsolete spelling of mouflon.

Meaning of mouflon

Noun

mouflon (plural mouflons)

  1. A species of wild sheep, Ovis orientalis musimon, syn. Ovis aries musimon, endemic to Sardinia and Corsica.
    • One of the most modified domesticates is the sheep, the various breeds of which bear little resemblance to its wild ancestor, the mouflon.2018, Tim Flannery, Europe: A Natural History, page 237

Forms of mufflon

pluralmufflons

Questions about mufflon

What is mufflon the obsolete spelling of?
Mufflon is the obsolete spelling of mouflon.

Words near mufflon in the dictionary

  1. Muffley
  2. Muffleys
  3. muffling
  4. muffling up
  5. mufflings
  6. mufflon
  7. mufflons
  8. muffly
  9. muffs
  10. muffs up
  11. muffuletta

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Adapted from Wiktionary: mufflon (page history and authors); mouflon (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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