musk ox

See also: muskox and musk-ox

English

A musk ox.

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, of the Caprinae subfamily of the family Bovidae, having a thick coat and long curved horns.

Translations

an arctic mammal

• Cherokee: ᏧᏴᏢ ᏯᎾᏌ (tsuyvtlv yanasa)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 麝牛 (zh) (shèniú)

• Czech: pižmoň m
• 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)
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• Italian: bue muschiato m
• Japanese: 麝香牛 (ja) (ジャコウウシ, jakōushi)
• Kurdish: ,
• Navajo: hakʼaz ayání
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: moskusoks

  Nynorsk: moskusfe

• 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