Definitions for musk-deer

musk-deer musk deer

Musk-Deer is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 219 anagrams from letters in musk-deer (-deekmrsu).

Definitions for musk-deer

noun

  1. a small, hornless deer, Moschus moschiferus, of central Asia, the male of which secretes musk: now rare.

Origin of musk-deer

First recorded in 1675-85

Examples for musk-deer

The musk deer (Moschus) is also quite restricted to northern Asia, and is one of its most peculiar types.

Only last year he brought me the sack of a musk deer, and that is the most dangerous of all sports.

Such quantities of musk deer have been and are killed for this purpose that the rarity of the animal is increasing.

Siberian musk (from the Siberian musk deer ) is very attractive to wolves in the Zoo.

Their clothes and their letters reek with the foetid secretion of the musk deer.

They distinguish two varieties of musk deer: one, having tusks much larger than the other, is called "yellow musk deer."

She resented it by drawing her own conclusion from what he had said of the ladies and the musk deer.

He says that in the wild state it takes pine martens and also the musk deer.

The musk deer may now be saved from extinction since we can make tri-nitro-butyl-xylene from coal tar.

The musk deer is found in the snows, and the barking deer on every hill side.

Word Value for musk-deer
Scrable

10

Words with friends

12

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