Definitions for argali

argali ar·ga·li

Spelling: [ahr-guh-lee]
IPA: /ˈɑr gə li/

Argali is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 83 anagrams from letters in argali (aagilr).

Definitions for argali

noun

  1. a wild sheep, Ovis ammon, of Asia, having long, curved horns that typically form an open, outwardly extended spiral: rare or endangered.

Origin of argali

1770-80; Mongolian: female mountain sheep

Examples for argali

The argali ranges over the steppes, or inland plains of Central Asia, northward and eastward to the ocean.

Indeed, to say that our common sheep sprung from the argali seems a very absurd theory.

There are several local races of argali, among which O. ammon hodgsoni of Ladak and Tibet is one of the best known.

It may possibly be the same animal that our zoologists have described by the name of argali.

But all hearts were gladdened by the welcome sight of some argali, or Siberian sheep, on the slope of a hill.

The bows that are chiefly prized, are made of the argali's horn, flat pieces of which are cemented together with glue.

Naturalists have named them ‘argali,’ from their resemblance to the argali (Ovis ammon), or wild sheep of Europe.

Siberia has an argali, that appears altogether to differ from the argali of the Himalayas.

argali, r′ga-li, n. the great wild sheep of Siberia and Central Asia.

It has sometimes been said that when the argali leaps from a height it alights on its horns, which break the force of its fall.

Word Value for argali
Scrable

7

Words with friends

9

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