musmon
(ˈmʌsmɒn)
Also 7 musmone, 7–8 musimon, 8–9 musman, 9 mousmon.
[a. L. mūsimon- (Pliny), late Gr. µούσµων (Strabo).]
A name for the mouflon.
| 1601 Holland Pliny I. 228 There is in Spaine, but especially in the Isle Corsica, a kind of Musmones, not altogether vnlike to sheep. 1688 R. Holme Armoury ii. 175/1 A Musimon.—This Beast is engendered of a She-Goat and a Ram... Some term it a..Musmon. 1776 Pennant Brit. Zool. (ed. 4) I. 27 note, Having thrice within these few years had opportunity of examining the Musimon, we found that [etc.]. 1794 Sporting Mag. III. 64 The Mouflon or Musman has been classed both of the sheep and the goat kind. 1887 Freeman in Stephens Life & Lett. (1895) II. 361 A mouflon or a mousmon who has not a thick armour of wool. |