Definition of Ovibos

1. Noun. Consisting of the musk-ox.

Exact synonyms: Genus Ovibos
Generic synonyms: Mammal Genus
Group relationships: Bovidae, Family Bovidae
Member holonyms: Musk Ox, Musk Sheep, Ovibos Moschatus

Definition of Ovibos

1. a wild ox [n OVIBOS]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Ovibos

Ouse
Ouse River
Outagamie
Outagamies
Outer Hebrides
Outer Manchuria
Outer Mongolia
Outer Tibet
Outremer
Oval
Oval Office
Ovalipes
Ovalipes ocellatus
Overijssel
Ovibos (current term)
Ovibos moschatus
Ovid
Ovidian
Oviedan
Oviedo
Ovimbundu
Ovis
Ovis ammon
Ovis aries
Ovis canadensis
Ovis montana dalli
Ovis musimon
Ovis poli
Ovis vignei

Literary usage of Ovibos

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Ottawa Naturalist by Ottawa Field-Naturalists' Club (1907)
"There are few records of the finding of the remains of Ovibos in Pleistocene deposits in ... 39, refers, under the heading Ovibos moschatus, to a specimen ..."

2. Palaeontology or a systematic summary of extinct animals and their by Richard Owen (1861)
"... and latitudes: a future generation of zoologists may have to record the final disappearance of the Arctic buffalo (Ovibos moschatus). Remains of Ovibos ..."

3. A Geographical History of Mammals by Richard Lydekker (1896)
"MUSK-OX (Ovibos moschatus). land and Labrador, the boundary line bends southwards after passing Cape Chudleigh to coincide with the southern shore of Hudson ..."

4. The Canadian Naturalist and Geologist by Natural History Society of Montreal (1857)
"The Musk Ox, Ovibos moschatus.—The evening proving fine, Mr. Rae and Albert went out to hunt, and both had the pleasure of seeing the musk-ox, for the first ..."

5. Catalogue of Ruminant Mammalia: (Pecora, Linnæus) in the British Museum by John Edward Gray (1872)
"... not reaching the nasals; no suborbital fissure or fossa; molars well developed within supplementary lobe. 1. Ovibos. ..."

6. The Friendly Arctic: The Story of Five Years in Polar Regions by Vilhjalmur Stefansson (1921)
"The common Eskimo method of killing ovibos I have described. It is to set a few dogs on the herd to hold them in a defensive circle and then to stab the ..."

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