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cimarron

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cim⋅ar⋅ron

  [sim-uh-ron, -rohn, -er-uhn; sim-uh-rohn]
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–noun
bighorn.
Origin:
1840–50; < AmerSp (carnero) cimarrón wild (sheep); Sp: wild, prob. equiv. to cim(a) peak, summit (< L cȳma spring shoots of a vegetable < Gk; see cyme ) + -arrón adj. suffix; cf. maroon 2

Cim⋅ar⋅ron

  [sim-uh-ron, -rohn, -er-uhn; sim-uh-rohn]
–noun
a river flowing E from NE New Mexico to the Arkansas River in Oklahoma. 600 mi. (965 km) long.

big⋅horn

  [big-hawrn]
–noun, plural -horns, (especially collectively) -horn.
a wild sheep, Ovis canadensis, of the Rocky Mountains, with large, curving horns.
Also called cimarron, Rocky Mountain bighorn, Rocky Mountain sheep.

Origin:
1775–85, Americanism; big 1 + horn
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Cim·ar·ron   (sĭm'ə-rŏn', -rōn')   
A river rising in northeast New Mexico and flowing about 1,123 km (698 mi) eastward across southwest Kansas to the Arkansas River in northern Oklahoma.
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
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