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Lamb Mutton Lamb and mutton, collectively sheep meat (or sheepmeat), is one of the most common meats around the world. It is meat from the domestic sheep, Ovis aries, and generally divided into lamb, from sheep in their first year, hogget, from sheep in their second, and mutton, from older sheep.
In South Asian and Caribbean cuisine, "mutton" often means goat meat. At various times and places, "mutton" or "goat mutton" has occasionally been used to mean goat meat.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “sheep meat” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.