muskox

muskox
/musk"oks'/, n., pl. muskoxen /-ok'seuhn/.
a bovine ruminant, Ovibos moschatus, of arctic regions of North America and Greenland, that is between an ox and a sheep in size and anatomy.
Also, musk ox.
[1735-45; MUSK + OX, so called from its odor]

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