musk
muhsk
- n an odorous glandular secretion from the male musk deer; used as a perfume fixative
- n the scent of a greasy glandular secretion from the male musk deer
- The musk ox is a hard animal to describeit looks somewhat like a cross between a buffalo and an English sheep dog, has downward-curving horns and a morose expression.
- Two chemists at Yale and Louisiana State claim to have extracted musk from the glands of the common muskrat (one-third of an ounce of distilled musk from 175 animals).
- His alluring smell is the musk deer's undoing.