- a variation of muskox.
musk ox
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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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
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
Deng and Wang then compared the data with those on other giraffoids and animals, including wild sheep and musk ox, which lock horns or butt heads to compete for mates.
From Science Magazine ● Jun. 1, 2022
Occasionally they do cool/gross things like peel back the cheek skin of a dead wild musk ox and say, “We got to render the tallow out of this face gristle.”
From Washington Post ● Feb. 8, 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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