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Animal with a shaggy coat
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muskox
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n. (alternative spelling of musk ox English)
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The muskox ( Ovibos moschatus ), also spelled musk ox and musk-ox , in Inuktitut , is an Arctic mammal of the family Bovidae , noted for its thick coat and for the strong odor emitted during the seasonal rut by males, from which its name derives. This musky ...
Usage examples of muskox.
Her hood was framed with muskox underfur, warm and golden as the setting sun.
The tribe lost a couple of their best hunters, who were badly crippled in a fight with a muskox, and this threw more work on the others.
Anyway the town did not look, and for twenty-five years now the couple had lived in the slack backwater of their lonely isolation, as though they had been two muskoxen strayed from the north pole, or two homeless and belated beasts from beyond the glacial period.
They’re facing outward as in pictures of muskoxen, pissing along the invisible line that marks their territory.