musk ox

British

noun

a large bovid mammal, Ovibos moschatus, which has a dark shaggy coat, short legs, and widely spaced downward-curving horns and emits a musky smell: now confined to the tundras of Canada and Greenland

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For the same reason, the government has also had to postpone the annual winter musk ox hunt that was due to start on January 31.

From Barron's ● Feb. 10, 2026

In December 2002, he hit literal paydirt, prying from Siberian soil the genetic remains ice age mammoths, musk ox, and all sorts of plants.

From Science Magazine ● Dec. 6, 2022

Alex Lanchester, Frozen Planet II producer, said that "the camera operator who filmed the musk ox story had to camp out in the Arctic in blizzard conditions".

From BBC ● Sep. 5, 2022

Each bomb is about the length of two refrigerators laid down end to end and as heavy as the average adult male musk ox.

From Washington Post ● Mar. 25, 2022

“If the Major has never met a musk ox while in sight of a great black-backed gull, he has nothing to compare, you see.”

From "The Very, Very Far North" by Dan Bar-el

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