| 单词 | musk sheep |
| 释义 | > as lemmasmusk sheep b. In various alternative names for the musk ox, Ovibos moschatus (see musk ox n.), as musk buffalo, musk bull, musk cow, musk sheep, etc. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > group Ruminantia (sheep, goats, cows, etc.) > subfamily Bovinae (bovine) > [noun] > ovibos moschatus (musk-ox) musk ox1744 musk bull1784 musk cow1784 musk sheep1784 Ovibos1825 musk1843 1784 T. Pennant Arctic Zool. I. Pl. vii Musk Bull and Cow. 1791 A. McKenzie Let. 2 Mar. in R. McKenzie Reminisc. 36 in L. R. Masson Les Bourgeois de la Compagnie du Nord-Ouest (1889) 1st Ser. Keep for me one of the small musk buffalo horns in its natural state. 1823 Ld. Byron Don Juan: Canto XII lxxxii. 46 Where the musk-bull browses. 1836 G. Back Narr. Arctic Land Exped. xii. 435 Three or four musk-bulls were seen grazing singly and apart. 1870 Nature 16 June 120/1 It possessed..larmiers beneath the orbit as in the Cervidae and the musk-sheep. 1876 C. H. Davis Narr. North Polar Exped. Ship Polaris 126 A long hunt for musk-cattle. 1883 Cent. Mag. Sept. 677/1 The range of musk-cattle is quite extensive. 1892 J. Fiske Let. 28 May (1940) 609 Saw a magnificent specimen of the musk-sheep, the animal so important in tracing the wanderings of the glacial cave men, you know. 1910 Jrnl. Royal Anthropol. Inst. 40 244 The Arctic mammalia are represented by the musk sheep, the most Arctic of all. 1972 E. R. Burroughs Pellucidar 18 Ibex and musk-sheep fell before my good old revolver, so that I lacked not for food. < as lemmas |
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