Definitions for aoudad

aoudad a·ou·dad

Spelling: [ah-oo-dad]
IPA: /ˈɑ ʊˌdæd/

Aoudad is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 44 anagrams from letters in aoudad (aaddou).

Definitions for aoudad

noun

  1. a wild sheep, Ammotragus lervia, of northern Africa, having a long fringe of hair on the throat, chest, and forelegs.

Origin of aoudad

1860-65; French Berber, equivalent to a- masculine singular prefix + udad ram

Examples for aoudad

This is the aoudad, which dwells in the mountains of Barbary.

Perhaps the Chaldaic "keren" may have been the horn of the aoudad, or of the animal which will next be mentioned.

The aoudad is wonderfully active, and even the young ones bound to an astonishing height.

The aoudad was formerly plentiful in Egypt, and even now is found along the Atlas mountain-range.

Water must exist underground, if we may argue from the presence of the aoudad and the gazelle.

More generally the aoudad reposes on some shelf of rock, where it matches the color of the stone, and is almost invisible.

No animals of the chase were seen; but our blacks picked up the dung of the ostrich, and a horn of the aoudad.

This animal, which is nearly allied to the aoudad, is also very goatlike in general aspect.

The horns of the aoudad are about two feet in length, and are of considerable diameter.

The young of the aoudad are charming little creatures, much like reddish kids.

Word Value for aoudad
Scrable

8

Words with friends

9

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