/moohf"lon/ , n.
a wild sheep, Ovis musimon, inhabiting the mountainous regions of Sardinia and Corsica, the male of which has large curving horns.
Also, moufflon .
[ 1765-75; muflone, orig. dial.; cf. Corsican muffolo, Sardinian murone, LL mufro, s. mufron-, presumably ]