| 释义 |
ovibos|ˈəʊvɪbɒs|
[mod.L. (H. de Blainville 1816, in Bull. Sci. Soc. Philomatique Paris 76), f. L. ovis sheep + bōs ox, as the animal was considered to represent a type intermediate between the sheep and the ox.]
A small, stocky ruminant of the monotypic genus so called, bearing long, shaggy, dark brown fur, and native to Arctic regions of North America and Greenland; = musk-ox.
1903R. Lydekker Mostly Mammals 287 No objection can be taken to the prefix ‘musk’..yet the English title ‘ox’ is in the highest degree misleading, while the technical ‘Ovibos’, which suggests characters intermediate between the oxen and the sheep, is equally unsatisfactory. 1921V. Stefánsson Friendly Arctic 342 We found the ancient and far-decayed skull of a female ovibos. Ibid. 582, I shot two ovibos as all we needed out of the fifteen or twenty seen. 1925Chambers's Jrnl. 14 Feb. 167/1 Here..will roam large herds of the domesticated musk-ox or ovibos. 1929Encycl. Brit. II. 306/1 With the ovibos domesticated, the potentialities of the Arctic will be greater. Ibid. Ovibos beef is indistinguishable from ordinary domestic beef. |