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Definition of Musk sheep
1. Noun. Large shaggy-coated bovid mammal of Canada and Greenland; intermediate in size and anatomy between an ox and a sheep.
Generic synonyms: Bovid
Group relationships: Genus Ovibos, Ovibos
Lexicographical Neighbors of Musk Sheep
Literary usage of Musk sheep
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Nature by Norman Lockyer (1877)
"397 been temperate from the associated remains of bison, stag, and horse, as it
would be to prove it to have been arctic from the associated musk sheep, ..."
2. Prairie and Forest: A Description of the Game of North America, with by Parker Gillmore (1874)
"THE musk sheep. ON the vast steppes of barren land that stretch from the ...
From musk sheep being extremely shy, and the roughness of the nature of the ..."
3. Prairie and Forest: A Description of the Game of North America, with by Parker Gillmore (1874)
"THE musk sheep. ON the vast steppes of barren land that stretch from the ...
From musk sheep being extremely shy, and the roughness of the nature of the ..."
4. The Tree-dwellers by Katharine ELizabeth Dopp (1904)
"The strange musk sheep The Coming of the musk sheep One day long after Bodo lived
some men went up the valley to hunt. They had not gone far when the leader ..."
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