Meaning & use
Ovis
The biological genus that includes domestic sheep and their wild relatives, such as bighorn and argali sheep.
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Domestic sheep belong to the species Ovis aries within the wider genus Ovis.
Wildlife biologists studied several Ovis species living in the mountain ranges of Central Asia.
A note on using this word
Ovis is a scientific Latin genus name and is conventionally italicized in formal biological writing.
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