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Definition of Moschus
1. Noun. Musk deer.
Generic synonyms: Mammal Genus
Group relationships: Cervidae, Family Cervidae
Member holonyms: Moschus Moschiferus, Musk Deer
Medical Definition of Moschus
1. Musk. Origin: G. Moschos, musk (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Moschus
Literary usage of Moschus
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley in Verse and Prose, Now First Brought by John Todhunter, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Harry Buxton Forman (1880)
"PAN, ECHO, AND THE SATYR TRANSLATED FROM THE GREEK OF moschus.i PAN loved his
... 232 to 234, is a draft of this poem from moschus, in an advanced state ..."
2. The Contemporary Review (1871)
"Bion and moschus have only escaped being overlain by their nurse in pastorals,
because it suited early editors and commentators to append their names and ..."
3. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern by Charles Dudley Warner (1896)
"moschus (THIRD CENTURY BC) JF moschus it is commonly said that he was the friend
or disciple of the Alexandrian grammarian, Aristarchus. ..."
4. A Manual of Materia Medica and Pharmacology: Comprising All Organic and by David Marvel Reynolds Culbreth (1906)
"Genus : 1. moschus. 2. Ovis. 3. Bos. moschus. ... Central Asia, from India to
Siberia. Syn. moschus ... moschus, Ri«im. Mos'chus. L. musk. ..."
5. College Greek Course in English by William Cleaver Wilkinson (1888)
"The two disciples and followers of Theocritus—Bion and moschus—are less ...
Of Bion and moschus, the men, we know literally nothing—unless as to Bion, ..."
6. College Greek Course in English by William Cleaver Wilkinson (1884)
"The two disciples and followers of Theocritus—Bion and moschus—are less ...
Of Bion and moschus, the men, we know literally nothing—unless as to Bion, ..."
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