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The deer is yellow or red-brown above,
whitish below. The pygmy musk deer are chevrotains, as the kanchil
and napu. -- Musk duck. (Zoöl.)
(a) The Muscovy duck. (b)
An Australian duck (Biziura lobata). -- Musk
lorikeet (Zoöl.), the Pacific lorikeet
(Glossopsitta australis) of Australia. -- Musk
mallow (Bot.), a name of two malvaceous
plants: (a) A species of mallow (Malva
moschata), the foliage of which has a faint musky smell.
(b) An Asiatic shrub. See Abelmosk. -
- Musk orchis (Bot.), a European plant
of the Orchis family (Herminium Minorchis); -- so called from
its peculiar scent. -- Musk ox
(Zoöl.), an Arctic hollow-horned ruminant (Ovibos
moschatus), now existing only in America, but found fossil in
Europe and Asia. It is covered with a thick coat of fine yellowish
wool, and with long dark hair, which is abundant and shaggy on the
neck and shoulders. The full-grown male weighs over four hundred
pounds.

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