musk deer in English

noun
1
a small solitary deerlike eastern Asian mammal without antlers, the male having long protruding upper canine teeth. Musk is produced in a sac on the abdomen of the male.
The items most sought after by traders are certain medicinal herbs that grow at the highest altitudes, the musk glands of male musk deer , and the gallbladders of Himalayan black bears.

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1. A substance secreted by the musk deer, used extensively in perfume. Also considered an aphrodisiac.

2. Musk is produced naturally by the musk deer and is used to attract other deer sexually.

3. 19 This high-altitude landscape of snow and rock is home to the snow leopard, musk deer, and red panda.

4. They both hunt Himalayan tahr and musk deer, but the leopard usually prefers forested habitats located at lower altitudes than the snow leopard.

5. Siberian musk deer and Amur moose are associated with the conifer forests and are near the southern limits of their distribution in the central Sikhote-Alin mountains.

6. A trek of 35 to 45 km in any of the park's valleys brings one into the high altitude habitat (3,500 m and above) of animals such as blue sheep, snow leopard, Himalayan brown bear, Himalayan tahr, and musk deer.

7. Chevrotain definition is - any of several very small hornless deerlike ruminant mammals of tropical Asia, the Malay archipelago, and West Africa superficially resembling the musk deer, the male having short tusks, and being among the smallest known ruminants, standing only about a …