0 a farm animal with thick wool that eats grass and is kept for its wool, skin, and meat:
1 a farm animal with thick curly hair that eats grass and is kept for its wool, skin, and meat
a sheep farmer
sheep shearing
But since the late 1960s many sheep bones have surfaced in just such sites.
Studies in sheep have provided valuable data on the endocrine pathways by which the fetal genome regulates the onset of labour.
Since sheep do not possess the opiate receptors responsible for causing anesthesia, they are not an appropriate model for testing narcotic anesthesia in the fetus.