: any of a genus (Moschus) of small heavy-limbed hornless deer of central Asian uplands with tusked musk-producing males
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Recent Examples on the WebIn its earliest form, musk was made from natural secretions of the male musk deer, says François-Raphaël Balestra, principal perfumer and director of New Ingredients Discovery at Swiss fragrance house Firmenich.ELLE, 30 Apr. 2022 Not everyone is optimistic about the musk deer’s future. The Editors, Outside Online, 6 Nov. 2014 On page 98, the annex says that on December 7, 2019, samples were collected from 69 kinds of animals including macaques, forest musk deer, porcupines and bamboo rats. Nick Paton Walsh, CNN, 25 May 2021 In the 1600s, an Armenian merchant started poking around, looking for musk, an incredibly lucrative perfume ingredient that came from glandular secretions of Tibetan musk deer.New York Times, 5 Jan. 2021 The Akron Zoo recently welcomed a baby Siberian musk deer, the second fawn born at the zoo in less than a year. Robin Goist, cleveland.com, 21 June 2019 Siberian musk deer are vulnerable to extinction, the zoo said. Robin Goist, cleveland.com, 21 June 2019 As further evidence of a single origin for bony headgear, Chinese water deer and two species of musk deer, both of which lack antlers, have a mutation in one of the genes linked to bone formation. Elizabeth Pennisi, Science | AAAS, 20 June 2019 To recover, the players took traditional medicine made from the glands of musk deer. Jeré Longman, New York Times, 10 June 2019 See More