Sheep

Rocky mountain sheep — See Bighorn.

Maned sheep — See Aoudad.

Sheep bot — the larva of the sheep botfly. See Estrus.

Sheep dog — a shepherd dog, or collie.

Sheep laurel — a small North American shrub (Kalmia angustifolia) with deep rose-colored flowers in corymbs.

Sheep pest — an Australian plant (Acaena ovina) related to the burnet. The fruit is covered with barbed spines, by which it adheres to the wool of sheep.

Sheep run — an extensive tract of country where sheep range and graze.

Sheep's beard — a cichoraceous herb (Urospermum Dalechampii) of Southern Europe; -- so called from the conspicuous pappus of the achenes.

Sheep's bit — a European herb (Jasione montana) having much the appearance of scabious.

Sheep pox — a contagious disease of sheep, characterixed by the development of vesicles or pocks upon the skin.

Sheep scabious — Same as Sheep's bit.

Sheep shears — shears in which the blades form the two ends of a steel bow, by the elasticity of which they open as often as pressed together by the hand in cutting; -- so called because used to cut off the wool of sheep.

Sheep sorrel — a prerennial herb (Rumex Acetosella) growing naturally on poor, dry, gravelly soil. Its leaves have a pleasant acid taste like sorrel.

Sheep's-wool — the highest grade of Florida commercial sponges (Spongia equina, variety gossypina).

Sheep tick — a wingless parasitic insect (Melophagus ovinus) belonging to the Diptera. It fixes its proboscis in the skin of the sheep and sucks the blood, leaving a swelling. Called also sheep pest, and sheep louse.

Sheep walk — a pasture for sheep; a sheep run.

Wild sheep — See Argali, Mouflon, and Oorial.