- a variation of muskox.
musk ox
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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The patrolmen are equipped with rifles and handguns, to be used as a last resort against angry polar bears and musk ox.
From Barron's ● Jan. 28, 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
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
For a large musk ox, turning around in the middle of the river would be as impossible as blindly stepping backward, as Duane had pointed out.
From "The Very, Very Far North" by Dan Bar-el
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