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sheep meaning

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  • Sheep (Ovis aries) are quadrupedal, ruminant mammals typically kept as livestock.
  • Sheep are most likely descended from the wild mouflon of Europe and Asia.
  • Sheep husbandry is practised throughout the majority of the inhabited world,
sheep
  • Noun
    1. A woolly ruminant of the genus Ovis.
      1. A timid, shy person who is easily led by others.
        1. plural of shoop.
        2. More Examples
          1. Used in the Middle of Sentence
            • X-ray-thin crusts have judicious coatings of cheese — robiola, goat cheese, ricotta, sheep cheese — and sparing but flavorful toppings like broccoli rabe, black truffle pâté and soppressata.
            • Due to difficulty culturing the WY-A2 strain in MMH broth, cysteine heart agar with 9% chocolatized sheep blood (CHAB) was used under identical incubation settings as the strains above.
            • The sheep skedaddled as soon as the shepherd’s dog came near.
          2. Used in the Ending of Sentence
            • The high impact derives from the farmstock fodder grown with chemicals, transport fuels, and the potent greenhouse gas methane from belching cattle and sheep.

        Meaning of sheep for the defined word.

        Grammatically, this word "sheep" is a noun, more specifically, a noun form, an invariant noun, an irregular plural, a nouns with irregular plural and a countable noun.
        • Part-of-Speech Hierarchy
          1. Nouns
            • Noun forms
              • Plurals
                • Irregular plurals
                  • Invariant nouns
                • Noun plural forms
                  • Irregular plurals
                    • Invariant nouns
                • Invariant nouns
                  • Irregular plurals
                    • Invariant nouns
                    • Nouns with irregular plurals
                      • Invariant nouns
                      • Countable nouns
                    Difficultness: Level 1
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                    Definiteness: Level 9
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                    Definite    ➨     Versatile
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