bighorn

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

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noun a river that flows from central Wyoming to the Yellowstone River in southern Montana
noun wild sheep of mountainous regions of western North America having massive curled horns

From big + horn.

Bighorn does not have the great curling horns. — The Burgess Animal Book for Children, Thornton W. (Thornton Waldo) Burgess
"He just isn't satisfied with jack rabbits where there used to be grizzlies and bighorns. — The Young Alaskans on the Missouri, Emerson Hough
OLD EPHRAIM For some days after our arrival on the Bighorn range we did not come across any grizzly. — The Literary World Seventh Reader, Unknown

Bighorn River

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