ˈ ̷ ̷ˌ ̷ ̷ noun
( plural musk-oxen )
: a heavy-set bovid mammal ( Ovibos moschatus ) circumpolar in distribution during the Pleistocene period but now confined to Greenland and the barren northern lands of No. America, being between the sheep and the oxen in size and in many characters but having a thick long shaggy pelage that is dark grayish brown or blackish with a light saddle marking — called also musk sheep
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