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musk-ox [see 1744 quote] 
1 n. a bovine ruminant, Ovibos moschatus, having characteristics of both the ox and the sheep but having shaggy, dark brown to black hair, found in the Arctic regions.
See also: Churchill buffalo musk buffalo musk cattle musk-cow
- 1744 Betwixt these Rivers is a kind of Ox, called the Musk ox, which smells at some Time in the Year so strong of Musk, that it cannot be eat.
- 1896 The musk-ox . . . seems to be the missing link between the ox and the sheep.
- 1965 No vehicle less flexible than a dog team can travel such country, and no major herbivore other than the caribou and muskox can find sustenance in it.
2 n. the flesh of the musk-ox used as food.
- 1795 (1911) [. . . the flesh of the musk-ox is not only coarse and tough, but smells and tastes so strong of musk as to make it very disagreeable when raw, though it is tolerable eating when properly cooked.]
- 1857 The tables themselves were literally covered with roast-beef (musk-ox), beef-steak pie, preserved meats, plum puddings, apple and cranberry tarts, and especially, several jugs of "Richard's" home-brewed beer.
- 1941 As for musk-ox, such meat was less to my taste, and I never want to eat it again.
- 1744 Betwixt these Rivers is a kind of Ox, called the Musk ox, which smells at some Time in the Year so strong of Musk, that it cannot be eat.