musk ox

See also: muskox

English

A musk ox.

Alternative forms

• muskox

Etymology

So called because of the strong odour, or musk, emitted by the males during the rutting season.

Noun

musk ox (plural musk oxen)

1. An Arctic mammal, Ovibos moschatus of the Caprinae subfamily of the family Bovidae, having a thick coat and long curved horns.
   • 2018, Tim Flannery, Europe: A Natural History, page 205:

     Its ʽcore faunaʼ consisted of the woolly mammoth, woolly rhino, saiga, muskox and the arctic fox. All except the woolly rhino evolved in the northern Arctic, and all had been evolving for several million years before their modern forms appeared.

Translations

Arctic mammal

• Bulgarian: мускусен бик m (muskusen bik)
• Catalan: bou mesquer m
• Cherokee: ᏧᏴᏢ ᏯᎾᏌ (tsuyvtlv yanasa)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 麝牛 (zh) (shèniú)

• Czech: pižmoň m
• Danish: moskusokse c
• Dutch: muskusos (nl) m
• Estonian: muskusveis
• Faroese: moskusneyt n
• Finnish: myskihärkä (fi)
• French: bœuf musqué (fr) m
• German: Moschusochse (de) m
• Greek: μοσχόβους m (moschóvous), προβατόβους ο μοσχοφόρος m (provatóvous o moschofóros)
• Greenlandic: umimmak
• Icelandic: sauðnaut n
• Inuktitut: ᐅᒥᖕᒪᒃ (omingmak)
• Italian: bue muschiato m
• Japanese: 麝香牛 (ja) (ジャコウウシ, jakōushi)
• Korean: 사향소 (sahyangso)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: gayê miskî, miskga

• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: moskusfe n, moskusokse m, moskus (no) m, moskusku m or f

  Nynorsk: moskusfe n, moskusokse m, moskus m, moskusku f

• Polish: piżmowół (pl) m anim
• Portuguese: boi-almiscarado m
• Romanian: bou moscat (ro) m
• Russian: овцебы́к (ru) m (ovcebýk), му́скусный бык m (múskusnyj byk)
• Spanish: buey almizclero m
• Swedish: myskoxe (sv) c
• Turkish: misk öküzü
• Vietnamese: bò xạ hương