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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"This time of year there is not much to hunt. So we rely on musk ox meat and skin," Kleist says.

From Barron's ● Feb. 10, 2026

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 ● Mar. 8, 2023

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

As imaginative as many of the entries on this list were — a rabid musk ox or reindeer, or an August blizzard — wildfires never made the list.

From Washington Post ● Aug. 9, 2018

Harder still were the unexpected interruptions whenever he passed the field where his neighbor, the musk ox, made his home.

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

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