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musk-ox
ˈmusk-ox A ruminant, Ovibos moschatus, formerly existing in all arctic regions, but now only in Arctic America; it evolves a strong odour of musk. Also attrib.1744 A. Dobbs Countries Adjacent to Hudson's Bay 18 Betwixt these Rivers is a kind of Ox, called the Musk Ox, which smells at some Time in th...
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Musk-ox (Nikolai Leskov)
Musk-Ox () is a novella by Nikolai Leskov, first published in the April, No. 4 1863 issue of Otechestvennye Zapiski. Ovtsebyk (Musk-Ox, a nickname referring both to peculiarities of his appearance and certain habits) is an eccentric whose every step and phrase baffles
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Operation Musk Ox
Operation Musk Ox was an 81-day military exercise organized by the Canadian Army in 1946. It involved the 48 members of the Army driving 11 4½-ton Canadian-designed snowmobiles ("Penguins"). They were joined by three American observers in a smaller American-made snowmobile called a "Weasel" as well ...
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ovibos
ovibos (ˈəʊvɪbɒs) [mod.L. (H. de Blainville 1816, in Bull. Sci. Soc. Philomatique Paris 76), f. L. ovis sheep + bōs ox, as the animal was considered to represent a type intermediate between the sheep and the ox.] A small, stocky ruminant of the monotypic genus so called, bearing long, shaggy, dark b...
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ovibovine
ovibovine, a. and n. Zool. (əʊvɪˈbəʊvaɪn) [ad. mod.L. Ovibovīnæ fem. pl., f. Ovibōs the musk-ox (the typical and only extant genus), f. ovis sheep + bōs ox.] a. adj. Belonging to the subfamily Ovibovinæ of the family Bovidæ, having characters intermediate between those of sheep and oxen. b. n. An an...
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Tasiujaq
marine mammals (seal and beluga), fish (Arctic char, Atlantic salmon, trout), ducks (particularly eider ducks) and many seabirds; also, close to 1000 musk-ox
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qiviut
‖ qiviut (ˈkɪvɪət) [Eskimo.] The underwool of the arctic musk-ox; fibre made from this.1965 Sci. News Let. 12 June 370/1 Many woolen manufacturers are enthusiastic about the principal product of the musk ox, its underwool, which the Eskimos call ‘qiviut’. The fiber is similar to that of cashmere but...
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Megalovis
Description
Megalovis was a large animal, resembling a musk-ox in general morphology and weighing around half a ton.
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sealery
sealery rare. (ˈsiːlərɪ) [f. seal n.1 + -ery.] The occupation of hunting the seal.1895 Kipling 2nd Jungle Bk. 146 Coming back north..for the musk-ox hunting and the regular winter sealery.
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Otechestvennye Zapiski
Netochka Nezvanova (1849)
The Village of Stepanchikovo (1859)
The Adolescent (1875)
Ivan Goncharov
Frigate "Pallada" (1858)
Oblomov (1859)
Nikolai Leskov
Musk-ox
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Judas Ullulaq
Primarily, he sculpted in stone while using a variety of mixed-media embellishments like sinew, ivory, musk-ox horns, antlers, and bones. "Fisherman" (1982)
"Fisherman" is a sculpture made out of black stone, antler, musk-ox, horn, and sinew.
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Muskox - Wikipedia
The muskox (Ovibos moschatus, in Latin "musky sheep-ox"), also spelled musk ox and musk-ox, plural muskoxen or musk oxen (in Inuktitut: ᐅᒥᖕᒪᒃ, romanized: umingmak; in Woods Cree: ᒫᖨᒨᐢ, romanized: mâthi-môs, ᒫᖨᒧᐢᑐᐢ, mâthi-mostos), is a hoofed mammal of the family Bovidae. Native to the Arctic, it is noted for its thick coat and for the strong odor emitted by ...
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Olrik Fjord
See also
List of fjords of Greenland
Arctic desert
References
External links
Arctic desert, Olrik Fjord, Northern Greenland
Some examples of dated musk-ox
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Qiviut
References
External links
Large Animal Research Station
The Papers of Werner Von Bergen on Musk-Ox Wool at Dartmouth College Library
Wool
Inuit culture
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Cervalces scotti
It shared the spruce parkland ecosystem with other herbivorous megafauna, such as the caribou (Rangifer tarandus), moose, the woodland musk-ox (Ovibos
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