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Definition of Ovibos
1. Noun. Consisting of the musk-ox.
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
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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