musk ox in English

noun
1
a large heavily built goat-antelope with a thick shaggy coat and large curved horns, native to the tundra of North America and Greenland.

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1. Musk ox calves huddle together during a snowfall at Musk Ox Farm in Palmer, Alaska.

2. Only the musk ox has a denser covering of hair.

3. The musk ox steak on my plate was seductively dark and succulent.

4. A bull musk ox marks his territory with scent from the glands on his face.

5. 12 The stock consists of the polar bear, arctic wolf, arctic fox, lemming, musk ox , and reindeer.

6. Unlike true goats, mountain sheep and musk ox, mountain goats rarely direct their blows to their rivals' heads.

7. Unlike the musk ox, caribou do head south for the winter, but it's a long and difficult journey.

8. Carl thus became the first and possibly the only man ever to successfully lasso musk ox, polar bears, and walrus.

9. Long ago there was no town and people used caribou, musk ox, polar bear, and wolf skin for clothes and blankets.

10. All of these make their way into his dishes, along with puffin eggs from Iceland and musk-ox meat from Greenland.

11. 28 Long ago there was no town and people used caribou, musk ox, polar bear, and wolf skin for clothes and blankets.

12. In the latter half of the nineteenth century, the shaggy pelt of the musk ox was much in demand for carriage robes.

13. It is applied to various plants and animals of similar smell (e.g. musk-ox, 1744) and has come to encompass a wide variety of aromatic substances with similar odors, despite their often differing chemical structures and molecular shapes.

14. The denseness of fur can increase an animal's insulation value, and arctic mammals especially have dense fur; for example, the musk ox has guard hairs measuring 30 cm (12 in) as well as a dense underfur, which forms an airtight coat, allowing them to survive in temperatures of −40 °C (−40 °F).