Musk ox Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun large shaggy-coated bovid mammal of Canada and Greenland; intermediate in size and anatomy between an ox and a sheep
    Ovibos moschatus; musk sheep.

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  1. . (Zoöl.) See under Musk.
Definitions
  1. (Zoöl.), an Arctic hollow-horned ruminant (Ovibos moschatus), now existing only in America, but found fossil in Europe and Asia. It is covered with a thick coat of fine yellowish wool, and with long dark hair, which is abundant and shaggy on the neck and shoulders. The full-grown male weighs over four hundred pounds.

Webster 1913