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muskox

muskox is the alternative spelling of musk ox.

Meaning of musk ox

Noun

musk ox (plural musk oxen)

  1. An Arctic mammal, Ovibos moschatus of the Caprinae subfamily of the family Bovidae, having a thick coat and long curved horns.
    • Its ʽcore faunaʼ consisted of the woolly mammoth, woolly rhino, saiga, muskox and the arctic fox. All except the woolly rhino evolved in the northern Arctic, and all had been evolving for several million years before their modern forms appeared.2018, Tim Flannery, Europe: A Natural History, page 205

Forms of muskox

pluralmuskoxen

Questions about muskox

What is muskox the alternative spelling of?
Muskox is the alternative spelling of musk ox.

Words near muskox in the dictionary

  1. Muskophiles
  2. Muskophilia
  3. Muskophobe
  4. Muskophobes
  5. Muskophobia
  6. muskox
  7. muskoxen
  8. muskoxite
  9. muskrat
  10. muskrat root
  11. muskrat roots

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