BIGHORN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Bighorn mean? 

• BIGHORN (noun)
  The noun BIGHORN has 2 senses:

1. a river that flows from central Wyoming to the Yellowstone River in southern Montana

2. wild sheep of mountainous regions of western North America having massive curled horns

  Familiarity information: BIGHORN used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BIGHORN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A river that flows from central Wyoming to the Yellowstone River in southern Montana

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)

Synonyms:

Bighorn; Bighorn River

Instance hypernyms:

river (a large natural stream of water (larger than a creek))

Holonyms ("Bighorn" is a part of...):

Mont.; Montana; MT; Treasure State (a state in northwestern United States on the Canadian border)

Equality State; WY; Wyo.; Wyoming (a state in the western United States; mountainous in the west and north with the Great Plains in the east)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Wild sheep of mountainous regions of western North America having massive curled horns

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

bighorn; bighorn sheep; cimarron; Ovis canadensis; Rocky Mountain bighorn; Rocky Mountain sheep

Hypernyms ("bighorn" is a kind of...):

mountain sheep (any wild sheep inhabiting mountainous regions)

Holonyms ("bighorn" is a member of...):

genus Ovis; Ovis (sheep)

 Context examples 

The cores, drilled in the Bighorn Basin in Wyoming, are the first terrestrial core samples of the PETM.

(Clues found on how soils may respond to climate change, National Science Foundation)