Urial vs Curial - What's the difference?
urial | curial |
Certain bearded reddish sheep, subspecies of , being endemic to southern Asia and believed to be a wild ancestor of domestic sheep.
* 1990 , A. Ghosh (editor), Animals, Domestication of'', article in ''An Encyclopaedia of Indian Archaeology ,
* 2011 , Colin Groves, Peter Grubb, Ungulate Taxonomy ,
* 2011 , John P. Rafferty, Grazers , Britannica Educational Publishing,
(obsolete) Pertaining to a court; courtly.
Pertaining to the papal curia.
*2011 , Thomas Penn, Winter King , Penguin 2012, p. 116:
*:In favouring the well-connected, politically and culturally sophisticated Italian merchants and diplomats who regularly arrived in England on curial business Henry killed two birds with one stone, gratifying popes by the attention and respect shown to their intimates, and employing them as his own eyes and ears at Rome […].
As a noun urial
is certain bearded reddish sheep, subspecies of , being endemic to southern asia and believed to be a wild ancestor of domestic sheep.As an adjective curial is
(obsolete) pertaining to a court; courtly.urial
English
(wikipedia urial) (Ovis)Noun
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- All domesticated sheep are descended from the moufflon, urial' or argali. They are closely related to each other and connected by intermediate breeds. Most wool sheep are believed to have been derived from ' urial stock, while hair sheep are traced back to the moufflon.
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- O. severtzovi has been shuffled back and forth between the urial and the argali groups.
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- Most urials' live in open habitats, with few or no trees, but there are indications that this may be a recent adaptation to changing environmental conditions and that the ' urial was originally more of a woodland animal than at present.