Lexicographical Neighbors of Musmons
Literary usage of Musmons
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Human Species by Armand Quatrefages de Bréau (1890)
"... and musmons, products of crossings between the he-goat and the sheep and the
ram with the she-goat, received their distinctive names from the Romans. ..."
2. The Animal Kingdom Arranged in Conformity with Its Organization by Georges Cuvier, Edward Griffith, Charles Hamilton Smith, Edward Pidgeon, John Edward Gray, George Robert Gray (1827)
"The musmons of Sardinia and Corsica never quit the highest ridges: where, however,
the temperature allows no permanent snows. They live in small herds, ..."
3. A History of the Earth and Animated Nature by Oliver Goldsmith (1856)
"Tbe Spanish wild sheep mixed however with the domestic, and the intermediate
breed, according to Pliny, were named umbri. The musmons of Sardinia and ..."
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