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musk_ox

musk ox

See also: muskox and musk-ox

English

Noun

musk ox ‎(plural musk oxen)

An arctic mammal, Ovibos moschatus 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
Italian: bue muschiato m
Japanese: 麝香牛 (ja) ‎(ジャコウウシ, jakōushi)

Kurdish: gayê miskî, miskga
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