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musk ox
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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The characteristic tundra animal is the reindeer, though musk-ox, woolly mammoth, and others were wide-spread at this time.
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They live on whale oil, blubber, fish and the meat of the musk ox, bear and other animals that inhabit the far North.
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The most notable animals are the white-bear, the musk-ox, the reindeer, and the whalebone whale.
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It is noteworthy that this mode of escape is attributed, at the present day, to both the musk ox and the Ovis Ammon.
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There was no musk ox head exhibited by an amateur sportsman.
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