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

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

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 • Mar. 25, 2022

Of course, he hadn’t, because the great black-backed gull was a bird, and although it was a bigger bird than a puffin, it was not nearly as big as a musk ox.

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