musk ox
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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
musk ox
▶noun a large heavily built goat-antelope with a thick shaggy coat and a horny protuberance on the head, native to the tundra of North America and Greenland. [Ovibos moschatus.]
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
ox/ɒks/
▶noun (pl. oxen /ˈɒks(ə)n/) a domesticated bovine animal kept for milk or meat; a cow or bull. See also cattle.
■ used in names of wild animals related to or resembling this, e.g. musk ox.
■ a castrated bull, especially as a draught animal.
– origin OE oxa, of Gmc origin.
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