sheep fleece
41fleece v — A sheep owner who sold his flock for too little was told: ewe were fleeced …
42fleece — 1 noun (C) 1 the woolly coat of a sheep 2 an artificial soft material used to make warm coats 2 verb (T) informal to charge someone too much money for something …
43fleece — [fliːs] noun 1) [C/U] the wool on a sheep 2) [U] a type of soft artificial cloth that is used for making clothes 3) [C] British a short jacket or PULLOVER made of soft artificial material …
44sheep — A mammal. A domestic animal kept for the production of wool, which is taken from the shorn fleece, and for meat known as mutton …
45fleece worm — noun : any of various blowfly maggots developing in the wool of sheep; especially : the maggot of the black blowfly (Phormia regina) …
46Golden fleece — Fleece Fleece (fl[=e]s), n. [OE. flees, AS. fle[ o]s; akin to D. flies, vlies.] 1. The entire coat of wool that covers a sheep or other similar animal; also, the quantity shorn from a sheep, or animal, at one time. [1913 Webster] Who shore me… …
47Domestic sheep — taxobox name = Domestic sheep status = DOM image width = 250px image caption = A research flock at U.S. Sheep Experiment Station near Dubois, Idaho regnum = Animalia phylum = Chordata classis = Mammalia ordo = Artiodactyla familia = Bovidae… …
48Navajo-Churro sheep — A Navajo Churro ram The Navajo Churro, or Churro for short,[1] is a breed of domestic sheep originating with the Spanish Churra sheep obtained by the Navajo Indian tribe. The breed is renowned for its hardiness and adaptability to …
49Romney (sheep) — The Romney, formerly called the Romney Marsh or the Kent sheep is a long wool sheep recognized as a breed in England by 1800. Exported to other continents, the Romney is the world’s second (to the Merino) most economically important sheep breed.… …
50Glossary of sheep husbandry — The raising of domestic sheep has existed in nearly every inhabited part of the globe, and the variations in cultures and languages which have kept sheep has produced a vast lexicon of unique terminology used to describe sheep husbandry. A few of …
