musk ox

British  

noun

1. 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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Example Sentences

Several times, he has called off weekend trips to fish for char or hunt musk ox after seeing storms predicted—only to find the Sun shining.

From Science Magazine

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

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

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

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