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musk-ox
[see 1744 quote]
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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1n.
a bovine ruminant, Ovibos moschatus, having characteristics of both the ox and the sheep but having shaggy, dark brown to black hair, found in the Arctic regions.
Quotations
1744
Betwixt these Rivers is a kind of Ox, called the Musk ox, which smells at some Time in the Year so strong of Musk, that it cannot be eat.
1896
The musk-ox . . . seems to be the missing link between the ox and the sheep.
1965
No vehicle less flexible than a dog team can travel such country, and no major herbivore other than the caribou and muskox can find sustenance in it.
2n.
the flesh of the musk-ox used as food.
Quotations
1795
[. . . the flesh of the musk-ox is not only coarse and tough, but smells and tastes so strong of musk as to make it very disagreeable when raw, though it is tolerable eating when properly cooked.]
1857
The tables themselves were literally covered with roast-beef (musk-ox), beef-steak pie, preserved meats, plum puddings, apple and cranberry tarts, and especially, several jugs of "Richard's" home-brewed beer.
1941
As for musk-ox, such meat was less to my taste, and I never want to eat it again.