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Musk sheep   /məsk ʃip/   Listen
Musk sheep

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






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"Musk sheep" Quotes from Famous Books



... which he was surrounded, a fauna in which species of cold and warm climates are at times quite capriciously intermingled. We get the reindeer and the mammoth side by side with the hippopotamus and the hyena; we find the chilly cave bear and the Norway lemming, the musk sheep and the Arctic fox in the same deposits with the lion and the lynx, the leopard and the rhinoceros. The fact is, as Mr. Alfred Russel Wallace has pointed out, we live to-day in a zoologically impoverished world, from which all the largest, ...
— Falling in Love - With Other Essays on More Exact Branches of Science • Grant Allen



Words linked to "Musk sheep" :   Ovibos moschatus, genus Ovibos, Ovibos, musk ox, bovid



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